SAN DIEGO -- Travis Jankowski is fast. He's always been fast. By nature, being fast in Major League Baseball usually leads to high stolen-base totals.
It does not -- as Jankowski is quick to point out -- make you a "base stealer."
"For me, when you see a guy stealing 30 bases, but getting caught 15 times, it's like: 'Dude, you don't get it. You're just a runner. You don't understand base stealing,'" Jankowski said. "That's why base stealing is starting to trend down. There are more runners in baseball than base stealers.