I love a big guy who steals the base. That’s why I was so excited when my friend Kevin submitted a mailbag question about Juan Soto’s basic theft orgy this season. I thought Davy Andrews would be the ideal person to answer Kevin’s questions, as he has written about the basic efficiency of the Mets’ theft in June. I’m right; David is the perfect person. In fact, he was so perfect that he wrote the whole article.
When I let Kevin know about David’s work, he followed up with a question about Josh Naylor, who stole 22 bases as of Friday morning. Of course, Naylor is now a teammate of Cal Raleigh, another slow runner who steals the double-digit number. This topic is too rich to resist, so this is where we start today.
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