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Originally Posted by Hammercraft
Unless you have Joey Meyer on first the runner is always going. Even then he's probably going. He's dead in a double play anyway, so you might as well send him and eliminate the force at one base. If they throw to get the slow runner they're conceding the sac fly.
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It's still stupid, because then what is the double steal for? If i double steal with a fattie at 1st, then he'd likely be the victim at 2nd. If I just steal with the presumably good stealer from 2nd, they have to make the much tougher play of getting a real stealer out at third, while my fattie can lumber into 2nd risk-free.
I basically have stopped to double-steal with guys who'd be a great DS threat otherwise, because I can just steal 3rd (with the runner having the option to abort in case of bad jump) and still get the benefits of a double steal.