The premise of this article isn’t something that I can actually prove, but it’s something that is interesting to think about. The King of Total Bases last year was Shohei Ohtani, who is pretty fast! And faster than his AL counterpart, Aaron Judge. Since those two have both speed and power, they may not be the best comparison. And their total base totals weren’t all that different. They are both ahead of third place, Cal Raleigh by over 20 bases, and hit less home runs. So maybe speed has slightly more of a correlation with total bases?
Kyle Schwarber and Pete Alonso are both slower than Raleigh and occupy #4 and #5 in the total bases contest.