Quote Originally Posted by Buff View Post
Nobody drools over Joey Votto - in fact, he gets a ton of unfair criticism because he walks so much as opposed to driving in more runs. Whereas Phillips emphasizes driving in runs above all other metrics.

His .425 career OBP is best among active players - that seems pretty great to me.
I used past tense. There were two years in particular were he was excessively the toast of the town.