1. I said above I'm not the stats guy that some are on this site. 2. Scoring runners is an important part of the game, right? Which I believe has been a knock against Mr. Mauer. Which turns out to be unjustified. 3. Maybe to show there's more value to Mr. Mauer than meets the eye? Again, I'm shocked that Mauer has been this good with RISP this year, considering the abysmal performance of the team overall. Also, I'd have given you odds that Mauer's value wasn't much but, RISP says there is value, providing people get on base in front of Mauer. You mentioned comparing Mauer to other 1st base. I picked RISP and, wow, was I surprised. I'm not even cherry picking, because I pulled the idea of RISP out of an un family friendly place and ran with it.