Don Mattingly is the one and only Major League Baseball player who picked up more runs batted in from 1984 through 1987 than Dave Parker, the latter of whom doing so entirely as a member of the Cincinnati Reds. Parker, previously an MVP with the Pittsburgh Pirates in a mostly remarkable 11-year stint with the black and yellow, came to the Reds after his career along the three rivers had mostly fizzled, an over-30 former superstar who was looking to resurrect his career.
RBI is obviously a stat we now consider team-oriented rather than player-produced, but that certainly wasn’t the case in The Cobra’s prime - and in his prime, when said attribute was considered a vital cog to any individual’s offensive profile, he produced like few others.