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I am Jeff Sullivan of fan graphs. I am joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer, which is not a fan graphs

But sometimes can resemble it. Hello Ben. How are you doing? Hello? Doing well. That's good

One of the articles that you've written recently in fact the article I would argue you have written most recently is about the Arizona

Diamondbacks team based running something I think I wrote about somewhere in April or early May or somewhere in there

One of those like hey, this team is on a early record pace thing, but you know stay tuned

There's still a lot of baseball left to go well. There's a lot less baseball left to go now than there was when I wrote that and they have if anything

Only increased their base running value pace. I'm not sure but they are on an incredible run

And so I wanted to have you talk about that a little bit because

Based running as a skill is not something I think a lot of people think about anymore it gets lost easily and rightfully so beyond

Yeah, hitting pitching defense and I don't know what else there is besides base running chemistry

I guess we don't talk about that very much but the doublebacks are very good at this thing

And it's a good partial explanation for why they're having such a successful out of nowhere season

Yeah, and it's okay not to pay that much attention to it in most teams case because it usually doesn't make more than no winner

So difference in either direction and so if you're gonna spend your mental energy worrying about baseball teams

They're probably better things to worry about or be happy about for most teams

But yeah, the diamondbacks are on pace and I don't even feel that bad about saying on pace because they're like on pace to

Shatter the all-time record for base running runs or at least the live ball era record since 1920 and

The raise the 2010 raise are the leader in that category and they're an outlier like the second place team is like

I don't know 25 runs above average or something and then the razor at around

37 runs above average which was pretty crazy and the diamondbacks are on pace for something like 45 or 46 right now

And they are well ahead of the 2010 raise pace and so yeah, it's really impressive and it's not just this year

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