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Originally Posted by xgeoff
I wondered if it was just bad luck in terms of running into catchers with good arms and/or pitchers with good 'hold runner' ratings. So I went and reviewed a number of games (not exhaustive, but a sample of about 5 games) where he was caught stealing and in every occasion the catcher's arm and pitcher's rating was marginal at best.
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As you say, a super small sample, but my assumption was success rate was low because players didn't decrease the number of attempts when facing good pickoff pitchers and good arm catchers.