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1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

RE:200 RBI. It would be had to pick two guys that got to the same milestone by more different routes. You can ignore Travis' rookie 1/3 season and he still totalled  284 in his first three full time seasons - partly because he was an iron man - he got into 461 games in those three seasons, and partly because the Tigers were scoring runs as team at a level today's team can only dream of 800-900 per season. Riley has been a walking med-evac case - halfway though his 4th season and is still short of 400 games played; Riley's teams have been scoring in the 550-650 runs/season range.

Another way to break it down is that Travis got his 200th RBI at about career AB 1360. Riley got there at about career AB 1530. If you consider the difference in team scoring levels Riley looks better than Travis on that basis.

Just think - Hack Wilson once had 190 RBI in one season. And he consumed 380 bottles of whiskey that same year!

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