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I would be curious to look at Herr's 1985 season where he had 110 RBI with only 8 home runs. I'm sure having Vince Coleman and Willie McGee batting in front of him helped. :-) But from a WAR perspective (5.6), it was the best season of his career.

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I 100 percent agree with you with the Herr factor and mostly agree with you on Vuckovich factor. Only thing is just like hitters sometimes would gives themselves up to hit behind the runner or put a ball in play, pitchers do not always pitch the same when nobody is on and when runners are on base. Especially back when going the distance was always in play.

A good example of this was the one Geoff wrote about with Catfish Hunter in issue 5 of the Sports Games Journal.

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This might be a little to nuance though for these games, but if they do have at least a small way to nudge things I am OK with that. But also see the case for let the chips fall as well

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