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Dodgers: Freeman and Turner Join Kemp and Ethier in Rarified Air

From 1996 to 2001, the Dodgers had a pair of 100-RBI hitters in every year but one (Mike Piazza and Eric Karros in 1996 and 1997, Karros and Gary Sheffield in 1999 and 2000, and Sheffield and Shawn Green in 2001). After that, they hit a little drought, having just four 100-RBI guys in the next seven seasons.

Then, in 2009, two young men named Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier came along, at least for the purposes of this conversation, Kemp had 101 RBIs in 2009 and Ethier had 106, leading the Dodgers to first place in the NL West and all the way to the NLCS, where they lost to the Phillies for the second straight year.