Back when baseball was won on the base paths – and not by the patiently awaited homer – the Cards' Coleman was the National League's chief thief. “Vincent Van Go” led the league in steals every year from 1985 to 1990. And in 1987, a year the Cardinals won the National League pennant, Coleman had 109 stolen bases … the same total as the 2019 Cardinals team, entering Tuesday's game.
And they have the NL's fourth-best stolen-base percentage at 80.74. This puts it in perspective – this stolen-base success rate is the highest in Cards franchise history since 1951, per STATS LLC.