Tim Anderson could use some updated business cards.
Ones that read: “major league leader in stolen bases.”
That’s what Anderson was at the start of play Saturday, no one else in the game owning four swiped bags through the first nine days of the 2018 campaign.
His new-look base-running prowess was on particular display in the home opener Thursday, Anderson singling, stealing second base, moving to third on a groundout and then sliding in ahead of a throw home on a pretty shallow fly ball.
Anderson’s fourth stolen base in six games has him nearly a third of the way to his 2017 total of 15 already.