McCovey Chronicles · Aug 8, 2018
The Giants are not a good basestealing team
The Giants sure have gotten thrown out a lot trying to steal. They’ve been caught stealing 25 times which is the ninth worst in the majors, and they’ve been successful only 43 times. No other team that has been thrown out as much as the Giants has as few steals. Their 37 percent caught stealing rate is fourth worst in the majors. Only the Marlins, Athletics, and Blue Jays have been worse.
Research by Tom Tango, Michael Lichtman, and Andrew Dolphin in The Book suggests that a team needs to be successfully more than 70 percent of the time. The Giants are well below that threshold. The majority of teams are below that threshold.