Players in the top 50 this year for total men on base during their plate appearances, with bad rates (less than 14%) of converting those chances into RBIs:
MLB rank of chances - Player - RBI%
16 - Jay Bruce - 13.43
17 - Carlos Santana - 11.65
18 - Omar Infante - 10.04
20 - Casey McGehee - 12.74
23 - Torii Hunter - 13.18
29 - Michael Cuddyer - 12.65
30 - Alcides Escobar - 11.07
37 - James Loney - 10.98
40 - Alexei Ramirez - 13.06
43 - Jayson Werth - 8.68
44 - Brennan Boesch - 13.69
49 - Carlos Pena - 12.97
50 - Dan Uggla - 8.40
For some players, failures in these situations are an anomaly, while some make a habit of it.
Unfortunately Jay Bruce falls into the latter category, as he was also in the top 50 in chances last year and had an even worse conversion rate (11.11%)
The 11 players in the top 120 for chances and falling below the 14% cutoff line in both 2010 and 2011:
Jay Bruce
Michael Cuddyer
Jayson Werth
Nick Markakis
Mark Reynolds
Colby Rasmus
Lyle Overbay
Alcides Escobar
Carlos Pena
Chone Figgins
Juan Pierre
Bruce, Cuddyer, Escobar and Pena were in the top 50 for chances each season and thus have thrown away massive amounts of scoring opportunities for their teams.
Source I used to collect the data:
<http://www.baseballmusings.com/cgi-bin/RBIPCT.py?StartDate=03%2F30%2F2011&EndDate=07%2F02%2F2011&SortField=1.0*%28OnRBI.RBI-OnRBI.HRs%29%2FOnRBI.RunnersOn&SortDir=desc&MinPA=50
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