Most of the attention on Javy Báez‘s magic rightly goes to the mind-boggling sleight of hand he uses to tag and avoid tags, but baserunning feats are a big part of what makes him El Mago. Specifically, the way he’s able to turn singles into doubles, teleport on throws to other bases, and make 90 feet disappear by advancing on wild pitches.
FanGraphs has a metric called BsR, an all encompassing baserunning stat that seeks to measure runs added by weighing extra bases taken against outs made on the basepaths. Javy’s 3.9 BsR ranked 26th in MLB last season and was right in line with a 3.