Broke this out of worst offensive performance and stole the title from Spinal Tap.
I'm truly floored how a guy like Young could go from perfect for his first 20+ career attempts and 12-0 in April to 5 stolen, 5 thrown out since 5/1.
Could have said there's no line between strategic and suicidal for the brain trust. This team does not behave like outs are precious things.
I wonder if there's a tell when they are going. It doesn't seem to be bad jumps. I can excuse Lane's last caught stealing when Garcia was up and the call was for a hit and run, but I wonder if there's some sort tell that it was on, because the pitch was unhittable and Goodman (I think he was in for Stallings) nailed Thomas. Colorado also called a successful pitchout in the game.
With Rizzo's scouting rep, you'd think the team could self scout for tells, or at least be able to see a pattern in its running decisions.
This is just a rant about basestealing. You could easily extent it to a rant about other base running mistakes.
