A Look At The Pittsburgh Pirates Base Running

Base running is an area of the game that often gets overlooked, often taken for granted while the mistakes are overwhelming obvious and remembered. Part of that falls on the third base coach, who can have aggressive sends or be too passive at times.

Last Friday against the Philadelphia Phillies, third base coach Joey Cora sent Colin Moran on a single to right. He was thrown out without ever reaching the plate and was tagged out before reaching the right-handed batters box.

Without calculating the break-even, that one seemed like a bad send (Harrison is a projected .269 hitter and a single scores Moran from third). Considering how far Colin Moran was out by, the send seemingly was well below…