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VORP is really more of a predictive stat than a descriptive stat. The purpose and utility of it is not so much to decide which player's had a better season, but to compare player's contributions isolated from his team-mates so you can decide which player might be better in another setting, say for instance, your own team.
You can definitely make the case that a player with higher RBI totals had a better season, even if you wouldn't say that he was necessarily a better hitter than another player with higher VORP. The first statement (a better season) is descriptive of an outcome while I think that the second statement (a better hitter) is predictive.
I really prefer WPA as a measure of a player's performance to RBI though. Too bad it's not in the game.
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