Minor Leaguer Swipes 100th base - On July 3.

Dboneesq

Not bad - this kid already has 100 stolen bases in single A ball.

JJacks

Pretty cool. It seems like no one steals more then about 50 bases in the MLB in a year anymore. Where did the Vince Colemans' go?

I went to the teams' webpage and here are his full stats by the way:

Player POS G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB CS OBP SLG AVG OPS E
Billy Hamilton SS 79 322 74 104 17 9 1 29 142 48 63 100 21 .413 .441 .323 .854 24

JJacks

bking

With the advent of Sabermetrics and the like, savvy ML teams figured out that anything less than a 75-80% success rate was actually a negative. That, coupled with the "Chicks dig the longball" mindset, really killed the art of base stealing as a major weapon.

Dboneesq

<< <i>With the advent of Sabermetrics and the like, savvy ML teams figured out that anything less than a 75-80% success rate was actually a negative. That, coupled with the "Chicks dig the longball" mindset, really killed the art of base stealing as a major weapon. >>


Well ... this kid is currently at an 82.6% successful steal rate ... so I guess he's OK for now!

Barndog

<< <i>Pretty cool. It seems like no one steals more then about 50 bases in the MLB in a year anymore. Where did the Vince Colemans' go?

I went to the teams' webpage and here are his full stats by the way:

Player POS G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB CS OBP SLG AVG OPS E
Billy Hamilton SS 79 322 74 104 17 9 1 29 142 48 63 100 21 .413 .441 .323 .854 24

JJacks >>



24 errors? Full season that works out to costing his team a bunch!

bking

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<< <i>Pretty cool. It seems like no one steals more then about 50 bases in the MLB in a year anymore. Where did the Vince Colemans' go?

I went to the teams' webpage and here are his full stats by the way:

Player POS G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB CS OBP SLG AVG OPS E
Billy Hamilton SS 79 322 74 104 17 9 1 29 142 48 63 100 21 .413 .441 .323 .854 24

JJacks >>



24 errors? Full season that works out to costing his team a bunch! >>



Minor league stats are a crapshoot anyway, but errors are without a doubt one of the least-meaningful given the quality of some fields. Best I recall, Bakersfield may be just an notch above a gravel parking lot.

mlbfan2

Looking at the other SSs in his league, he has the 3rd most errors per game, out of 10. But, there's a lot more to fielding than just errors. A SS with a lot of range will tend to make more errors than a SS with poor range (cough...Derek Jeter...cough).

bxb

How ironic, Billy Hamilton is the same name as the old timer in the Hall of Fame, who also was famous for stealing bases.

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