What does Miles have on Lou and Jim?

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<!--quoteo(post=56608:date=Aug 9 2009, 01:43 AM:name=KBwsb)-->QUOTE (KBwsb @ Aug 9 2009, 01:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->How are you figuring that? I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but here's a for instance: This year, Ryan Freel has 3 RBI, and has scored 8 times.
Albert Pujols has 97 RBI and 86 runs scored.
Most teams have played about 110 games.
Just by simple addition, Pujols has been a part of 183 runs scored, and Freel has helped his team produce 11 runs. That's a difference of 172 runs in 110 games, far more than a run per game.
So, it's certainly possible.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well obviously there's going to be that kind of a difference between 2 players when 1 plays and the other doesn't.

But if you want to make that the standard, let's get the numbers right to begin with. Pujols has 100 RBI & 86 runs scored, but you can't say 186 team runs, since you're counting HRs double (as they have both an RBI & a run scored, but only count for 1 team run). Reducing the 186 team runs by the 36 double-counted HRs (so that they're only counted once) = 150. Freel has 11 runs scored & 5 RBI = 16 (with no HRs).

Pujols has about 6.9 times as many plate appearances this season as Freel. If you presume that Freel would maintain the same rate in contributing to team runs if he had an equal number of plate appearances as Pujols, Freel would have contributed to 110 team runs (16 team runs x 6.9 to make up the difference in plate appearances).

So, the real comparison between them is Pujols with 150 and Freel with 110. A difference of 40 team runs (with Pujols having played in 109 games). So well under 1 run/game.