I didn’t want him to steal because of 40/40, I wanted him to steal because I want the cubs to win. he steals bases at an 85% success rate. braves allow opposing teams to steal at an 85% success rate. I’m no advanced metrics guru, but I feel like PCA had at least an 85% chance of successfully stealing 2b.
that is true, obviously, but those three guys have hardly been models of health in their careers. like, duh, of course those three guys all got hurt...were we expecting them not to?
hoyer and hawkins prob thought they were so cool when they did their brad pitt/jonah hill routine about how the rest of mlb is wrong to be chasing velo and they’re gonna do it with $6 mil oft injured junkballers.