{"id":172073,"date":"2025-09-27T03:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/172073\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T03:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:27:07","slug":"mariners-josh-naylor-is-4th-player-in-mlb-history-to-reach-this-stolen-base-feat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/172073\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners’ Josh Naylor is 4th player in MLB history to reach this stolen base feat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mariners’ Josh Naylor is 4th player in MLB history to reach this stolen base feat<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

If you had Josh Naylor on your bingo card with a stolen base record, no you didn’t.<\/p>\n

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But that’s exactly where the Seattle Mariners’ first baseman found himself on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Naylor swiped his 30th bag of the season, and now he’s in an exclusive club.<\/p>\n

He is now the fourth first baseman to ever have a 20 home run, 30 stolen base season, according to Just Baseball<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The previous three primary first baseman to have this accomplishment: Joe Carter, Jeff Bagwell and Paul Goldschmidt. Bagwell did it twice.<\/p>\n

Naylor is by far the most improbable. He entered this season with 25 career stolen bases.<\/p>\n

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Somehow, the 5-foot-10, 235-pound slugger who the Wall Street Journal recently said looks oddly like a refrigerator has 30 steals in one season.<\/p>\n

He’s one of the slowest runners in baseball by the Statcast sprint speed metric.<\/p>\n

The baserunning intelligence is just so darn high for Naylor.<\/p>\n

He hasn’t been caught stealing since April.<\/p>\n

It’s not even really worth trying to make sense of it anymore.<\/p>\n

It’s just something to marvel at, to make us all realize that even when we think we understand baseball, sometimes the game will throw us some magnificent curveballs.<\/p>\n

Naylor is ready for those curveballs, mind you. That’s a great pitch to steal on.<\/p>\n

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