Stolen Bases

Stolen Base Data

The data below was used to evaluate players’ stolen base abilities that played over 100 games.

Success Rate vs. SB.Game

The scatterplot below shows how success rates for base stealers differ from a player’s stolen bases per game.

Highest Success Rate

Byron Buxton has the highest success rate of all players with 100 career games and 50 stolen base attempts.

playerID nameFirst nameLast G SB CS SB.Attempt Success.Rate SB.Game
buxtoby01 Byron Buxton 306 46 5 51 0.902 0.150
bradlja02 Jackie Bradley 671 47 6 53 0.887 0.070
campato01 Tony Campana 257 66 9 75 0.880 0.257
casilal01 Alexi Casilla 578 80 11 91 0.879 0.138
utleych01 Chase Utley 1937 154 22 176 0.875 0.080
frazilo01 Lou Frazier 309 58 9 67 0.866 0.188
beltrca01 Carlos Beltran 2586 312 49 361 0.864 0.121
percoja01 Jack Perconte 433 78 13 91 0.857 0.180
werthja01 Jayson Werth 1583 132 23 155 0.852 0.083
matsuka01 Kazuo Matsui 630 102 18 120 0.850 0.162
byrneer01 Eric Byrnes 963 129 23 152 0.849 0.134
bayja01 Jason Bay 1278 95 17 112 0.848 0.074
troutmi01 Mike Trout 1065 189 34 223 0.848 0.177
mclouna01 Nate McLouth 1045 133 24 157 0.847 0.127
reesepo01 Pokey Reese 856 144 26 170 0.847 0.168
raineti01 Tim Raines 2502 808 146 954 0.847 0.323
dysonja01 Jarrod Dyson 728 220 40 260 0.846 0.302
owingch01 Chris Owings 580 70 13 83 0.843 0.121
hillje01 Jesse Hill 295 43 8 51 0.843 0.146
daviser01 Eric Davis 1626 349 66 415 0.841 0.215

Lowest Success Rate

Johnny Groth has the lowest success rate of all players with 100 career games and 50 stolen base attempts.

playerID nameFirst nameLast G SB CS SB.Attempt Success.Rate SB.Game
grothjo01 Johnny Groth 1248 19 42 61 0.311 0.015
hortowi01 Willie Horton 2028 20 38 58 0.345 0.010
sundbji01 Jim Sundberg 1962 20 37 57 0.351 0.010
knickbi01 Bill Knickerbocker 907 25 46 71 0.352 0.028
singlke01 Ken Singleton 2082 21 36 57 0.368 0.010
menkede01 Denis Menke 1598 34 54 88 0.386 0.021
venturo01 Robin Ventura 2079 24 38 62 0.387 0.012
simmote01 Ted Simmons 2456 21 33 54 0.389 0.009
hargrmi01 Mike Hargrove 1666 24 37 61 0.393 0.014
moralje01 Jerry Morales 1441 37 57 94 0.394 0.026
alouje01 Jesus Alou 1380 31 46 77 0.403 0.022
boggswa01 Wade Boggs 2440 24 35 59 0.407 0.010
bellbu01 Buddy Bell 2405 55 79 134 0.410 0.023
obriepe03 Pete O’Brien 1567 24 34 58 0.414 0.015
travice01 Cecil Travis 1328 23 32 55 0.418 0.017
runnepe01 Pete Runnels 1799 37 51 88 0.420 0.021
kuipedu01 Duane Kuiper 1057 52 71 123 0.423 0.049
minchdo01 Don Mincher 1400 24 32 56 0.429 0.017
parrila02 Lance Parrish 1988 28 37 65 0.431 0.014
boonebo01 Bob Boone 2264 38 50 88 0.432 0.017

Most Stolen Bases Per Game

Vince Coleman has the most SB per game with at least 100 games played and 50 SB attempts.

playerID nameFirst nameLast G SB CS SB.Attempt Success.Rate SB.Game
colemvi01 Vince Coleman 1371 752 177 929 0.809 0.549
henderi01 Rickey Henderson 3081 1406 335 1741 0.808 0.456
lefloro01 Ron LeFlore 1099 455 142 597 0.762 0.414
hamilbi02 Billy Hamilton 690 277 63 340 0.815 0.401
wiggial01 Alan Wiggins 631 242 68 310 0.781 0.384
lintzla01 Larry Lintz 350 128 38 166 0.771 0.366
nixonot01 Otis Nixon 1709 620 186 806 0.769 0.363
gordode01 Dee Gordon 852 308 93 401 0.768 0.362
brocklo01 Lou Brock 2616 938 307 1245 0.753 0.359
milleed04 Eddie Miller 138 49 13 62 0.790 0.355

Career Pitching

The data table below shows the career walks and strikeouts of layers with their total number of outs. Also shown is the year of the middle year of their career.

The graph below shows a scatterplot of career strikeouts to walks of players who have recorded over 10,000 outs.