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True Dough

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3. MLB is introducing changes next season that will make the game more friendly for base-stealers

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Sep 16, 2022, 09:04 AM

Sep 2022

Enlarging the bases and only allowing a couple of pickoff throws by the pitcher to keep base runners close. That should help boost the numbers. No Rickey Henderson among the existing crop of players though.

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Rickey Henderson stole more bases in 1982 than any entire major league team stole last season. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 OP

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