Over the course of baseball history, we have been witness to some amazing feats. Whether it was watching Rickey Henderson steal bases like his life depended on it or remembering where we were and what we thought when Barry Bonds broke Hank Aaron's home run record—young or old, big or small, we've all seen great things in the sport of baseball.
That said, watching some of the guys on this list run the bases isn't one of them.
The following players are guys that weren't exactly paid to steal bases but who have shown us that in the game of baseball, anything can happen. No, you will not find any speedsters on this list, but their polar opposites. These men make up a group of baseball's "slow guys."
I know that by this point you're wondering, "How exactly does a guy get on this list?" Well, that's a simple answer. I looked at the careers of some of the best hitters in baseball history and pointed out some of their abnormal seasons, where following a bunch of single-digit numbers in the stolen base column, a guy like Lance Berkman manages to fool the opposing battery into giving him 18 bases.
Of course, swiping a bag isn't all about speed. It's about timing and patience, as these "slow guys" have shown. With that in mind, however, there is a reason that these players have only accomplished this feat once over the course of their careers, or in the rare case, twice.
These men are some of the most feared hitters in the long history of the game of baseball, but feared baserunners they are not. Perhaps that's what gave them this lone seasonal advantage. Now, all we can do is look back and wonder, "How did that even happen?"
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