Heard one of the real baseball analytics geeks say third base is one of the areas teams have completely wrong. 3rd base Coaches have a 90%+ success rate on sends. The Analytical approach would suggest you should be in the 60% range and score a whole lot more runs.
They say getting thrown out at home with less than 2 outs is viewed as way too bad by baseball people.
When you factor in most throws are off line and the catcher has to catch it and make the tag, you should be a lot more aggressive. And the odds of getting a runner home from 3rd via the bat is not as high a sending the runner in a lot more of the cases.
Just something we haven't realy discussed this year.
They say getting thrown out at home with less than 2 outs is viewed as way too bad by baseball people.
When you factor in most throws are off line and the catcher has to catch it and make the tag, you should be a lot more aggressive. And the odds of getting a runner home from 3rd via the bat is not as high a sending the runner in a lot more of the cases.
Just something we haven't realy discussed this year.