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Old 05-09-2007, 12:21 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by billethius View Post
I'll go ahead and log it, asking Markus to take a look ... but looking quickly at baseball reference, it looks like the ratio is much less than 2 to 1 for much of baseball history. It's not until the late 60's that you start to see anything even approaching 2-1.

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How can you say that since caught stealing stats weren't kept consistantly until the 50's? The ones that were kept show league success around 60% or more. There are a few that I see that were around 57%, but I have not found one instance where SB% was 50% or less. I once did figure out that historically the success rate was 63% for all years I could find records for.
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