What these Mets lack in great base stealers, they are more than making up for in great rule-followers.
Or Mookie Wilson and Wally Backman.
The increase in stolen bases around baseball due to slightly bigger bags — decreasing the distance from one to another — and limitations on pickoff throws can benefit the clever as well as the quick. If there is a rule that his peers might not yet fully understand, Showalter is going to look to exploit it.
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