Why do so many bloggers hate Plaschke?

No, I did not. I said Juan Pierre and Omar Moreno were overvalued. Then I said it's a crock that many saber people undervalue and sometimes vilify the Hall of Famer and one-time steals king Lou Brock. I'm not going to search out links, but the "boot Lou" argument has been made on this board.

 

http://baseballevolution.com/keith/brockbad.html

http://baseballevolution.com/asher/brockmiddle.html

 

Hmmm ...

Well, let me say I care even less about what Keith Glab at Baseball Evolution thinks than I do about Bill Plaschke.

 

But it's called Baseball Evolution!

 

As long as you succeed more than 50 percent of the time, you're taking an extra base more often than you lose one. That's not counting the times a runner steals second and third (granted, that is probably a statistically insignificant number). And most teams give a regular green light only to runners who succeed at least 70 percent of the time. And then there's the aforementioned distract the pitcher/move the defense around advantage.

 

I read something weeks ago that the Expos' Dave Palmer once threw over 18 consecutive times (without delivering) when Coleman was on first.

The sabrs can count something like this, but they don't know what the hell to do with it. It is a factor, needless to say.

 

I once found a story from the '20s in "Baseball Magazine" about how stolen bases were out of vogue. It's all cyclical.

 

People loved those ballclubs, they still talk about them. Put asses in the seats.

 

And they were, for about four decades.

After Wills and Brock, they went out of vogue again in the 1970s, came back in the 1980s, and went back out in the 1990s.

 

And with the PED era seemingly over, the steal could very well be more prominent again.