Yahoo Sports Senior MLB Analyst Jordan Shusterman and Senior MLB Analyst Jake Mintz react to Elly De La Cruz’s successful base stealing so far this season and predict he will definitely surpass his goal of 80 bases stolen. Listen to the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast — and subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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Uh My God, has a De La Cruz ever heard of him?
Uh, Sam Miller wrote about this in his fantastic Pebble Hunt substack, which I encourage everyone to subscribe to.
But this is something I mentioned and mentioned earlier this week. I really don’t think people are understanding how often Ellie runs.
We’re really at the Little League level of Oh, well, there he goes.
Right.
You, you, you talked about this compared to your kids earlier this week.
But, but that’s what’s happening.
And Elio de La Cruz has 30 steals.
Jake, we talked about the Phillies being top 30.
De La Cruz has 30 steals.
He talked before the season about how his goal was 80.
Uh That won’t be a problem if this man stays healthy as he is 13 ahead of second place Jose Caballero.
Um, this is a good tweet from Bryce Spalding, who is a Reds fan and I like his content.
He said last year Ronda Cunha led baseball last year with 73 steals.
He only reached 30 on June 16, in the 70th game of the season.
Ellie has 30 on May 16 in game 45.
This is simply ridiculous.
And I’m so amazed and I just can’t believe that he, me, again, did.
OK. Well, we don’t compare him to Ricky.
Ricky didn’t know, he couldn’t steal every time because pitchers could only throw so often.
And the bases are pizza boxes and like, yeah, it’s all true.
Um, but Ellie is in a class of her own and I’m happy that he’s like, oh, yeah, okay, I’m the fastest player in the league and you’re going to let me run like this.
It’s so, so, so great.
And the other reason is that it gets him caught, that’s something we haven’t really had, I think, sort of a dealer, but since Ronald gets caught all the time, he’s getting caught anyway.
Like they’re fast players, they get picked all the time, but like Elliot getting picked up now is such an emotional event, you know, like for the other team in a way, you know, Austin Barnes played my last night.
So I just love everything about it.
Um, there’s something else I’m going to say for myself.
Anyway, but that’s, he’s amazing.
I love him so much.
