Admit it, you laughed when you first heard it. The proclamation from Hanley Ramirez when the Boston Red Sox gathered for spring training seemed ridiculous. 30+ home runs and 30+ stolen bases?
No way. In a previous decade, maybe. He’s done it before when he smashed 33 home runs and swiped 35 bases for the Florida Marlins back in 2008. That was during his early superstar years. Ramirez is 34 years old now. It’s also been quite some time since anyone considered him a star.
He hasn’t stolen double-digit bases since 2014, let alone making a run at 30.