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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
Rickey has some fun early years where he got picked off and got caught a lot...because everybody in the ballpark knew he was going. He seemed to get more efficient as he got older and the teams he played on got better.
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Rickey credits Davey Lopes (an all time great from an efficiency standpoint) from changing him from being a runner to being a base stealer. You can literally see in the stats the years they spent together. If he had been as efficient in 1982 as he was in 1983 he'd have stolen 150 bases.