David Lentz gave up a long homer to Otis Nixon and said:
 DL> Ed likes to use stolen base percentage and I am found of caught
 DL> stealing.  In neither category is Bret Butler terribly brilliant.
Butler's been *barely* above what has been recognized as the *break even* 
point of stolen base percentage, .667. Whitey Herzog built his teams in KC 
and St. Louis around speed but more importantly, with the exception of his 
first two years in St. Louis, his teams were always above the league average 
in stolen base percentage. Not so coincidentally, Lonnie Smith has his best 
years with Herzog. I think he would have been able to do something about 
Butler and Polonia.
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