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Originally Posted by SniperSB23
The thing is it has been shown that you need at least a 67-70% success rate to break even on the number of runs you will score. Now this is understandable for 95%+ of the guys out there but there are guys like Ellsbury (85.1% career), Ichiro (81.6%), Beltran (88.3%), Crawford (82.8%), Kinsler (89.1%), and Bartlett (83.2%) that could clearly run far more and help their team. Now I can understand why Beltran might not run more now that he's in NY but he clearly should have run more in KC and these other guys don't have the excuses of being a high paid heart of the lineup player. They should all be running more.
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Ellsbury (40 steals in 80 games this year) and Bartlett have hardly had a career, Ichiro is 35 year old, Crawford is regularly over 50 steals, and Kinsler plays in Texas with solid power behind him and has a hard time staying healthy. Not to mention that they would all find their % diminish as they are now stealing at optimium opportunities.