How does Steve Finley get a stolen base rating of Av when he has a 75% steal percentage and the league average is 70%? What are the criteria?
We don’t use raw stolen base percentages in our ratings. We break them down between steals of second and steals of third (e.g. the success rate in 1995 was 5% higher on steals of third), steals on grass and on turf (e.g. the success rate in 1995 was 4% higher on turf), and we remove any SB where the guy was the trailing runner on a double steal (because the focus of the play wasn’t on him). Of his 36 SB, he loses one because of the trailing runner adjustment. Ten of the other 35 were steals of third and 13 were on turf. After all of these factors are considered, he’s still above average, but he’s just a tiny bit below the threshold where we give the Vg rating.
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