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Monday, February 21, 2005

2003-2004 Baserunning

Using my baserunning framework I ran the numbers combining both 2003 and 2004. Here are the top 20 with 50 or more opportunities:


Opp Bases EB IB IBR OA
Vernon Wells 90 159 139.90 19.10 1.14 2
Jack Wilson 69 118 104.60 13.40 1.13 1
Larry Walker 75 132 117.28 14.72 1.13 0
Mike Cameron 81 131 117.43 13.57 1.12 1
Eric Hinske 84 143 128.26 14.74 1.11 0
Barry Larkin 62 114 102.41 11.59 1.11 0
Chone Figgins 74 121 108.72 12.28 1.11 3
Hee-Seop Choi 59 103 92.57 10.43 1.11 0
Jose Reyes 52 85 76.44 8.56 1.11 2
Scott Podsednik 101 162 145.93 16.07 1.11 1
Aaron Miles 51 82 73.87 8.13 1.11 1
Jeff DaVanon 62 99 89.60 9.40 1.10 0
Alfonso Soriano 78 122 110.70 11.30 1.10 1
Gary Matthews Jr. 66 110 100.02 9.98 1.10 1
Aaron Rowand 60 101 91.86 9.14 1.10 1
Ryan Freel 52 82 74.66 7.34 1.10 1
Miguel Cairo 56 89 81.19 7.81 1.10 0
Rafael Furcal 147 241 220.00 21.00 1.10 0
Carlos Beltran 123 201 183.50 17.50 1.10 1
Brian Roberts 130 207 189.03 17.97 1.10 2

A couple of observations:
  • Chone Figgins made the list while still being thrown out advancing three times in 2003-2004

  • I normally wouldn't have thought of Hee-Seop Choi as a good baserunner. With his 1.11 IBR maybe he's a smart baserunner or maybe he was just luckly


  • The average age of these 20 players is 26 years old


  • The bottom 10 in 2003-2004 were:

    Opp Bases EB IB IBR OA
    Dmitri Young 86 114 130.84 -16.84 0.87 3
    Matt Stairs 59 74 85.49 -11.49 0.87 1
    Damian Miller 52 69 80.02 -11.02 0.86 2
    Edgar Martinez 92 121 140.54 -19.54 0.86 1
    Rafael Palmeiro 104 129 150.27 -21.27 0.86 7
    Mike Piazza 56 74 86.34 -12.34 0.86 2
    Jason LaRue 63 83 97.37 -14.37 0.85 3
    John Olerud 102 129 151.91 -22.91 0.85 3
    Bill Mueller 111 143 170.80 -27.80 0.84 6
    Ben Grieve 55 69 83.20 -14.20 0.83 3


    The average age of these players is 32 years old.

    A quick graph of IBR by age shows a pretty steady downward trend over time with a spikes at ages 37 and 40 when the number of opportunities decreases.

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