David Lesky writes about how Royals runners fare under Statcast’s new baserunning metric.
Back to overall baserunning runs, Gracia was third in baseball with eight while Witt was 13th with five and Blanco was 18th with five. I assume there’s some rounding there and there’s a rhyme and reason for the order fo the handful of tied players. Isbel proved to be very good on the bases as well with three runs in this metric and Melendez was surprisingly not as bad as I’d have guessed given the base stealing numbers. He was at -1, which is below average, but given that the base stealing brings him down, he was pretty solid when he wasn’t trying to rip a bag.