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Let’s talk about baserunning and Nicky Lopez

Nicky Lopez didn’t swipe a single bag in 2020. In five attempts! For someone with his profile, that lack of success seems a bit weird.

It gets even weirder! As Fangraphs pointed out, Lopez was the first baserunner to go oh-for-at least five stolen base attempts since Nick Hundley went 0-5 a decade earlier. That’s catcher Nick Hundley with his 15 total steals over an 11 year major league career, thank you very much. If you project yourself to have any kind of possibility of committing larceny on the bases, you don’t want to be keeping company with the Nick Hundley’s of the world.