Not here to defend my brother but I understand what he's saying.
2011: LaRoche before DL/injury: .172 /.288 /.258
2012: Ramos before injury: .265 /.354 /.398
LaRoche was batting below .200. Ramos was productive before he went down.
Anyway back to the topic: I take back what I said/thought about LaRoche. He is having a unusual hot start and is seriously mashing the crap out of the ball.
It doesn't matter what LaRoche was batting in 2011. He had the frealkin injury since early ST. The whole year was bombed.