Someone should show Lou this: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=5764 Only four teams did better than breaking even last year. Every other team gave up runs by trying to steal bases. Florida, Detroit, Washington, and Colorado each lost more than ten runs. A quick question for you in all seriousness. Do the stats take into account the runs that were created by pitchers making mistakes and getting to much of the plate trying to get the ball to the catcher quicker? Or the very human feel of momentum shift when a base is stolen, or its counter weight the momentum stopped by throwing out a baserunner to kill an inning? Or throwing errors or balks by pitchers who have to pay attention to runners on base, because they know your team might actually steal bases? Or the pitcher having to pitch from the stretch with runners on base, thereby losing a tic off his fastball? Or the pitcher being distracted by the runner on base and not having quite as much focus on where he wants to put each pitch? I highly doubt that all of these things are accounted for.