Lineup Protection: An Attractive Man's Take

I've just written a Lineup Protection code that I'm pretty stoked about. I'm not sure exactly what I want from it yet,  so it's likely that I'll be adding to this page in the future. Lineup protection has been studied by men much greater than I, but they certainly weren't as good-looking. And to be quite honest, the hack stat enthusiast community could use some attractive men in their ranks, even if they are just pretending to know what they're talking about. So, that said, let's do this.

First up is Albert Pujols. He's certainly the best hitter of the generation, and he's had multiple teammates bat in front of him in the line-up through the years. This data, for reasons I won't get into, excludes the 2011 season. Here are all players who batted in front of The Machine at least 100 times in a season,  and their OPS with and without him on deck:


PUJOLS'S PROTECTEES

Run%

This is something I've been wanting to do for a while now, but just never got around to it. For the Bases Empty Bunts post, I wanted to get a feel for how fast Lee Mazzilli was, considering how effective he was at bunting for a hit. In order to do this, I wrote a code for every time a base runner had second or third base open immediately in front of him. From there we can get a more accurate estimate of how many opportunities (Opp) that runner had, how often he attempted to steal (Run%) and how often he was successful (SB%).

This system only includes double-steals when the runner in question was the lead runner. I also excluded all opportunities and attempts to steal home.

Of the top 100 base stealers since 1950, here are those who ran at least 20% of the time:

ALL-TIME RUN% LEADERS MIN 245 SB

First	Last	Opps	Atts	SBs	RUN%	SB%
Vince	Coleman	2955	929	759	0.31	0.82
Omar	Moreno	2429	664	485	0.27	0.73
Miguel	Dilone	1324	345	267	0.26	0.77
Ron	LeFlore	2449	592	451	0.24	0.76
Rickey	Henderson	7274	1752	1419	0.24	0.81
Otis	Nixon	3527	816	629	0.23	0.77
Lou	Brock	5430	1254	948	0.23	0.76
Jose	Reyes	1867	418	333	0.22	0.8
Bill	North	2482	554	394	0.22	0.71
Gary	Redus	1868	401	319	0.21	0.8
Frank	Taveras	1887	403	298	0.21	0.74
Tom	Goodwin	2250	478	363	0.21	0.76
Cesar	Cedeno	3402	719	543	0.21	0.76
Gary	Pettis	2152	454	350	0.21	0.77
Julio	Cruz	2005	419	342	0.21	0.82
Carl	Crawford	2458	496	406	0.2	0.82
Bert	Campaneris	4213	844	647	0.2	0.77
Willie	Wilson	4131	809	676	0.2	0.84
Scott	Podsednik	2079	407	303	0.2	0.74