I really like a big lad who steals bases. That’s why I used to be thrilled when my pal Kevin submitted a mailbag query about Juan Soto’s base-stealing binge this season. I believed Davy Andrews can be the proper particular person to reply Kevin’s question as a result of he’d already written concerning the Mets’ stolen-base effectivity again in June. And I used to be appropriate; Davy was the proper particular person. So good, in actual fact, that he wrote an entire article about it as a substitute.
Once I let Kevin find out about Davy’s piece, he adopted up with a query about Josh Naylor, who relatively shockingly has stolen 22 bases as of Friday morning. After all, 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 as we speak.
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