Ray’s Ramblings:  2023 Power and Speed

Ray Flowers talks about players that broke the bank when it comes to power and speed in 2023. How did things go for MLB in 2023 when it comes to homers and steals? Which players hit the milestones? Which players just missed?

	HR	SB	SB%
2021	5944	2213	75.4
2022	5215	2486	75.7
2023	5868	3503	80.2

The 2023 season was the greatest success rate of all-time.

The 2023 produced the fourth most steals of all time, but the second most since 1920 (in 1987 there were 3,585 steals). 

Ronald Acuna 41/73
Corbin Carroll 25/54
Bobby Witt Jr. 30/49 (led baseball in CS)
C.J. Abrams 18/47
Ha-Seong Kim 17/38
Julio Rodriguez 32/37
Josh Lowe 20/32
Francisco Lindor 31/31
Trea Turner 26/30
Kyle Tucker 29/30
Fernando Tatis 25/29
Christian Yelich 19/28
Jose Ramirez 24/28
TJ Friedl 18/27
Anthony Volpe 21/24
Freddie Freeman 29/23
Randy Arozarena 23/22
Jazz Chisholm 19/22 (in 97 games)
George Springer 21/20
Cody Bellinger 26/20
Lane Thomas 28/20
Shohei Ohtani 44/20
Nolan Jones 20/20 (106 games)
Michael Harris 18/20
Xander Bogaerts 19/19
Chas McCormick 22/19
JT Realmuto 20/16
Daulton Varsho 20/16
James Outman 23/16
Spencer Steer 23/15
Marcus Semien 29/14