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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
It is very surprising to me that Rickey Henderson, a great speedster with pretty decent power (close to 300 HR), had only 66 triples.
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Rickey's surprising lack of career triples is discussed here. TLDR: righty pull hitters dont hit many triples, home park effects, slow out of the box with that crazy crouching stance.
https://tht.fangraphs.com/endangered...hree-base-hit/
He was also quoted saying that 3B was his favorite bag to steal, since he could get the biggest lead. So wanting to be at 2nd so that he could take 3rd was a real factor to some degree.
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