Who remembers Game Winning RBIs? Bring em back!
Hernandez holds the all-time record, and always will, with 129 GWRBI. He set the single-season mark with 24 in 1985 with the New York Mets. “If you win 10-0, you shouldn’t have one. You hit a sacrifice fly in the first inning, there’s not that kind of pressure early in the game,” he said. “Still, it’s nice to be the leader. I’m sure I have a lot of legitimate ones mixed in with the other ones.”
via Baseball Prospectus | Wezen-Ball: The Drawbacks and Demise of a Stat.
I can’t believe we ditched the Game-Winning RBI stat, but never did anything about the save rule. Both seem equally prone to artificial inflation.