With the first full month of the baseball season coming to a close, it’s time to take stock of some early returns. Especially of interest is stolen bases, now in the third year of the rule changes designed to create more interest on the basepaths. Mike Axisa at CBS Sports found that stolen base attempts are up over a percentage point from last season at this time, with no decrease in success rate, and as Ben Clemens at FanGraphs points out, the swipes will continue until success rates decline.
For the Mariners, however, that means another season of watching opposing teams run wild on them.