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Spritze · 06-03-2009, 01:58 PM

A few of the minor leagues in the olde days kept track of steals and caught stealing. Out of curiosity I added them all up about a year ago and the SB% was around 55% for the leagues. The league leader in steals in at least one case that I remember had like 50 steals and 60 CS's. Even though this was the minors I bet the overall pct holds pretty true for the majors as well. I think it was just a different game back then. Some of these leagues also kept track of SB and CS per catcher and one even tracked SB given up by the pitcher. Pretty early Saber-dudes?

The advancing thing is what caused many early SB% to be in the 90% area.

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Spritze Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Redmond Wa and Cape Coast Ghana Posts: 2,935 Thanks: 16 Thanked 338x in 236 posts	A few of the minor leagues in the olde days kept track of steals and caught stealing. Out of curiosity I added them all up about a year ago and the SB% was around 55% for the leagues. The league leader in steals in at least one case that I remember had like 50 steals and 60 CS's. Even though this was the minors I bet the overall pct holds pretty true for the majors as well. I think it was just a different game back then. Some of these leagues also kept track of SB and CS per catcher and one even tracked SB given up by the pitcher. Pretty early Saber-dudes? The advancing thing is what caused many early SB% to be in the 90% area.