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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 370456, member: 837"]
First, I agree on BABIP -- it is among the worst of those stats. I don't follow it that closely but I believe a lot of SABR folks agree with that. Really all it does is tell you how well a guy is making contact, which naturally will ebb and flow in a given year or career. BABIP is slightly more useful when context like LD rate and GB rate are factored in, but even then all you're really saying is, "This guy's hitting well b/c he's hitting a ton of line drives." Umm, yes. Thanks for all the hard work. I saw someone saying that Lester's BABIP against on Lester was significantly higher than at any other point in his career and suggested he'd be fine next year and was simply having stuff luck. Anyone who's watched lester pitch can tell you he's giving up more hits b/c he's giving up better contact. 
 
Second, I also don't understand the call for demanding that people pay no attention to RBIs. I get that they are inflated at times simply based on where you hit and what lineup you're in, but there is still value in a guy who can put runs on the board when there are guys on base. There are perhaps better measures of this but I have yet to see a season in which a guy drives in 100 but is somehow not a good player or not helping his team at all.
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