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I had a pitcher steal 3b on me who never stole a base in his career. How does that happen. Also I had pitcher bunt for hits with no runners on base. I can't recall ever seeing a modern day pitcher do that. Finally the runners success at stealing 3b. In close games, if an opposing runner gets on 1B, he steals 2B and then 3B successfully. It never fails. if my catchers throw out 1 in 20 runners stealing 3B, I am lucky Is this happening to other managers also?

Pitchers Stealing 3rd  -  Very strange indeed.  Who was the catcher?

Pitchers Bunting for hits - I've seen in in the bigs.  It is probably a higher probability of success than swinging away

 Stealng 2nd & 4rd - Willie Tavarez Baby.  47 steals so far.  Many times that is 2nd then 3rd

 Now in past years, if you had rrunners on the corners a delayed steal of home always resulted in a run.  This year it rarely does.  I wonder if the algorythm has been tweaked.....

In far too many instances, I have seen a runner steal 2nd, then 3rd (no matter who my catcher is) and it always seems to occur in close games.  It would be nice to have a pitch out option like the robot does to gun down runners and stop squeeze plays.

Unlike some of our stats masters on the site, I haven't made a study of this, but stealing third seems to be a much higher percentage strategy in PB than in real baseball.  I have spot checked success in stealing second, and it seems to run pretty true to form that the varibles of the caught stealing ratios of pitcher and catcher and the steals percentage of the baserunner run somewhere close to where they should be.

Bunt singles in the game appear random.  Lots of players bunt for singles who wouldn't do so in real baseball; in a recent series Albert Pujols did that to me.  Probably bunting for a hit occurs rather randomly for pitchers as well.  I think it's been explained on this board before that the algorithm controls whether a hitter gets on base, but the calls are random.  The same seems to be true, for example, in hitters' having opposite field power.

Tomj is right that a delayed steal of home used to be a high percentage play in PureBaseball, much more so than in real life, and that that seems to have been fixed.

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Osceola Dave

I agree with BATBUCK. If I am leading by one run, if the opposing team has a guy on 2b, and he doesn't have to be a good base stealer either, he seems to always steal 3b and is always safe. I had Redmond catching with a 9 arm and the opposing runners stole 3b several times during the series.