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Originally Posted by JayP
Anyone else getting annoyed with this excessive "threat of the steal" stuff? Everytime anything good offensively happens there's zero credit to the hitter and just a constant droning about how the pitcher was disrupted. I mean, when Riveria grounds weakly to third with Aaron Hill on second and there's a throwing error, how can you attribute any of that to the "threat of the steal"?
How we were a top 10 offense last year without the threat of the steal is beyond me. Especially when Davis and his "disruption" led the A's to a bottom 10 offense.
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It annoys me more because there's no proof that speed or base stealing have any sort of affect on opposition pitching.