Here are baseball's five best and five worst baserunners in 2006:
What about from a team perspective? Here are baseball's five best and five worst baserunning teams in 2006:
It’s very interesting to see that we have very good and very bad teams on both lists. This is only a one-year sample, but I’m sure that in the long run the better teams run the bases more effectively than the worse teams. However, in the short run, it’s not necessary to be a great baserunning team to win a lot of games.
The Kansas City Royals, a notoriously poor hitting team of late, have been the best baserunning team in baseball in three of the last four years. As former light-hitting Royal Bill Pecota once said, “If you can’t do the big things well, you’ve got to do the little things to make up for it.”