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Originally Posted by Nunyer
I've had pretty good luck with picking off runners. In fact, I've tried to limit throwing to first after I picked off three runners in a two game stretch... Was starting to think something was goofy and I was exploiting...  |
I've started trying more often after reading your post, and it's been a big help to me. It's a little counter-intuitive, though, because it seems that I can only pick off slow runners who apparently wander around aimlessly away from the bag, while the basestealers who have presumably larger leads are completely impossible to pick off. I've noticed that my picked off runners are generally slower guys with low baserunning awareness as well, so it seems that the OOTP model might overweight barerunning awareness vs basestealing when it comes to pickoffs.
It should be, IMO, slightly easier to pick off a basestealing threat due to a larger lead being taken, while the poor baserunners should be taking fewer chances with their leads.