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Here are the '14 playoff teams and the RHB's they had who had more than 70 RBI's.
 
SF:  Pence and Posey (Sandoval as a switcher, too)
Pitt:  McCutcheon and Walker
Wash: Desmond, Rendon and Werth
St. Louis: Holiday and Piralta
Oak: Donaldson and Cespedes (they crashed after losing his RH presence)
LAA: Trout, Pujols and Kendrick
Balt: Cruz and Jones
KC:  Perez (with Butler at 66)...(KC is a special bullpen driven case, of course)
Seattle had Zunino tops with 60!
Maybe '14 is an outlier year, but it looks like you have to have RH RBI ability to get very far.  Of course, there is a chicken and egg question here.  Perhaps teams that score runs get more RBI opportunities for their RHB's.  But maybe it is the Critical Mass deal, without hard RH RBI guys you don't score enough runs. I like the 2nd offering.
We bet the RH farm on Hart (and to some switchy extent, Smoak) this year.  Then we were way tardy in responding to the failed bet.  Then our responses (Denorfia and Morales) swung like rusty gates. 
Bad stuff.
Let's do better this year.