I really like a big lad who steals bases. That’s why I used to be thrilled when my buddy Kevin submitted a mailbag query about Juan Soto’s base-stealing binge this season. I assumed Davy Andrews could be the right individual to reply Kevin’s question as a result of he’d already written in regards to the Mets’ stolen-base effectivity again in June. And I used to be appropriate; Davy was the right individual. So excellent, in truth, that he wrote a complete article about it as a substitute.
After I let Kevin learn about Davy’s piece, he adopted up with a query about Josh Naylor, who moderately shockingly has stolen 22 bases as of Friday morning. In fact, Naylor is now teammates with Cal Raleigh, one other sluggish runner with double-digit steals. The subject was too wealthy for me to withstand, in order that’s the place we’ll start in the present day.
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