April 14, 2005
Running Well
Basestealers are having a very good year so far. They have the 2nd best SB% since 1974.
| Season | Games | SB | Attempts | SBPct | SB/G |
| 1996 | 2267 | 3240 | 4583 | 70.696 | 1.429 |
| 2005 | 125 | 141 | 200 | 70.500 | 1.128 |
| 2004 | 2428 | 2589 | 3695 | 70.068 | 1.066 |
| 1987 | 2105 | 3585 | 5114 | 70.102 | 1.703 |
| 1995 | 2017 | 2932 | 4189 | 69.993 | 1.454 |
The last two season runners are stealing less but stealing better. Sabermetrics makes another inroad.
I ran the SB for April from 1989 to 2005:
SB% for April
2005 70.5
2004 72
2003 69
2002 69
2001 68
2000 65
1999 67
1998 67
1997 71
1996 70
1995 75
1994 68
1993 67
1992 67
1991 68
1990 67
1989 69
Who will be the AL's steals leader?
It should be an interesting race between Podsednik and Crawford. Maybe this will be a year someone gets close to 100 again.