Digging through assorted Rays history in a database, I wanted to find out how often Carl Crawford attempted a steal. More specifically, I wanted the percentage of times on base that Crawford ran. If you recall I figured something similar a few weeks ago, but I wanted to also see where he ranked in Rays history.
Much to my surprise, when I lowered the times on base threshold to 10 (SSS, I know) Nathan Haynes name popped up. Haynes reached based 13 times this season, and attempted five steals. Of course, that doesn't account for Haynes pinch running, and I don't have the play-by-play database abilities to filter that down, so take it for what it is.
After my near Haynes experience, I turned back to the original question. You shouldn't be surprised to learn that Crawford dominates the list, with his highest being 33.5% in 2004. Here's a list of the top 10:
| Player | Year | SB | CS | H | BB | HBP | TOB | SBA | SBP |
| Crawford | 2004 | 59 | 15 | 185 | 35 | 1 | 221 | 74 | 0.3348 |
| Crawford | 2003 | 55 | 10 | 177 | 26 | 1 | 204 | 65 | 0.3186 |
| Winn | 1998 | 26 | 12 | 94 | 29 | 1 | 124 | 38 | 0.3065 |
| Crawford | 2006 | 58 | 9 | 183 | 37 | 4 | 224 | 67 | 0.2991 |
| Tyner | 2001 | 31 | 6 | 111 | 15 | 3 | 129 | 37 | 0.2868 |
| Crawford | 2007 | 50 | 10 | 184 | 32 | 5 | 221 | 60 | 0.2715 |
| Cairo | 2000 | 28 | 7 | 98 | 29 | 2 | 129 | 35 | 0.2713 |
| Upton | 2008 | 44 | 16 | 145 | 97 | 2 | 244 | 60 | 0.2459 |
| Crawford | 2005 | 46 | 8 | 194 | 27 | 5 | 226 | 54 | 0.2389 |
| Crawford | 2008 | 25 | 7 | 121 | 30 | 2 | 153 | 32 | 0.2092 |
On the other hand, how about the guys who got on base 100+ times, aren't catchers, and got the steal sign the least? Here you go:
| Player | Year | SB | CS | H | BB | HBP | TOB | SBA | SBP |
| Canseco | 1999 | 3 | 0 | 120 | 58 | 7 | 185 | 3 | 0.0162 |
| Trammell | 1999 | 0 | 2 | 82 | 43 | 1 | 126 | 2 | 0.0159 |
| Cantu | 2006 | 1 | 1 | 103 | 26 | 3 | 132 | 2 | 0.0152 |
| McGriff | 2001 | 1 | 1 | 109 | 40 | 0 | 149 | 2 | 0.0134 |
| Pena | 2008 | 1 | 1 | 121 | 96 | 12 | 229 | 2 | 0.0087 |
| McGriff | 2000 | 2 | 0 | 157 | 91 | 0 | 248 | 2 | 0.0081 |
| Boggs | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 88 | 38 | 0 | 126 | 1 | 0.0079 |
| Cantu | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 171 | 19 | 6 | 196 | 1 | 0.0051 |
| Pena | 2007 | 1 | 0 | 138 | 103 | 10 | 251 | 1 | 0.004 |
| McGriff | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 164 | 86 | 1 | 251 | 1 | 0.004 |
Cantu is the only one of these players who was not in the latter stages of his career (or at least older than 28), yet somehow he was listed twice. God blessed that Human Lawn Statue, just not with speed.