The second and third greatest base stealers of all time?

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Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

I have to go Raines. Insane percentage for the any amount of steals let alone for the guy in 5th on the all-time list. Almost 85% success rate.

I Like Coleman, but sticking with the success rate theme I'm going to go Willie Wilson for 3rd at over 83%.

Honorable mention to Davey Lopes who had an 83% success rate in an era that was unheard of, plus he is credited with teaching Rickey a lot about reading pitchers and getting a jump. Rickey became a much higher percentage guy after being mentored by Lopes.

Incidentally the list of highest success percentage for steals for guys who had over 500 attempts goes

Raines
Wilson
Lopes
Rollins
Carl Crawford
Ichiro
Joe Morgan
Coleman
Henderson
Roberto Alomar
Jose Reyes

Those are the only guys over 80%. I was curious after writing the above, didn't know that going in, I just knew the guys I picked were very successful.

Lopes was first base coach for the Phillies from 2007 to 2010, and I think the Phillies led the league (or were close to it) in stolen base percentage when he was there. I remember many of the players credited him with helping them greatly improve their running game as a team.