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Their wordsThis is because we always think we know more about the world than we do, about the universe than we do, about OURSELVES than we do. That's the human experience.
Their wordsThe RBI is a wildly overrated individual statistic because it's context-driven.
Their wordsBut it's worth remembering that we probably don't have baseball figured out, that 25 years from now we might look back and laugh at the idea that anyone ever thought launch angles and swinging for the fences and playing station to station baseball was the way to win.
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