"So far, he appears to be the type of hitter that you can't count on and that you can't count out."

Wow. That's a great way of describing O'Neill. I felt that way about Matt Holliday most of the time he was with the Cardinals. The last time I truly felt a player was going to get a hit every time the Cardinals needed one was the year Pujols almost single-handedly carried them. The year they tried to pass off Cementhead Wells as their #2 starter and Edmonds and Rolen were both hurt. Maybe 2007. And what was astonishing was other teams kept pitching to him. 
My dad always tells me he was always absolutely, positively convinced all throughout 1967 that if Yaz came up with a runner in scoring position, he going to drive him in.