Mike Trout and Bryce Harper

[LMBombers]

Could these guys end up getting a 1-18 base running rating for 2012? Has there ever been a rating that high? There have been some very fast base runners in the past so if there has never been a 1-18 I guess not but fielders better not mess around with the ball when these guys are running.

[lev.cohen]

Trout especially is extremely fast.. Harper isn't as quick, but he is still pretty damn fast. Trout is really the faster dude though.

[Risden]

The ATG experts would know better, but I rememebr Mickey Mantle being a 1-18 or 1-19 guy in one particular year when I played SOM with the cards and dice.

[geekor]

yea Bourjous is fast as well, well faster from First to home. Trout has such acceleration though, much faster for straight 90 feet.

[travelingjack]

Jim Thome is faster than all those guys

[artie4121]

Fastest guys I ever saw -- or seemed to be -- from home to 1st were early Ralph Garr, Wally Backman and Willie Davis.

It's said that Mantle was 3.2 down to first. Seems impossible to me, but who knows.

[KEVINEHLE]

Ben Revere is an absolute BLUR. His only caught stealing this season was getting tagged out for over-sliding at 2nd base. Also, no fly ball is safe on his side of the field. My wife's cats have better arms than Revere, but that's a different subject! :wink:

Kev

[the splinter]

Am I correct in remembering a 1-18 Willie Davis from my table top days?

Maybe Tommy Davis from his monster 62 season?

And have we all forgotten a guy named Deion Sanders?

[KEVINEHLE]

[quote:6c95abcc67="the splinter"]Am I correct in remembering a 1-18 Willie Davis from my table top days?

Maybe Tommy Davis from his monster 62 season?

And have we all forgotten a guy named Deion Sanders?[/quote:6c95abcc67]

No, Deion Sanders was a 1-15. He would have been a 1-18 were it not for his ego weighing him down! 8-)

[the splinter]

and the jewelry!

I was not citing his card...but his real life speed

he went from the plate to 3rd faster then 95% of the players go from 1st to third

and you better come up throwing from the outfield if he is on 1st with nobody in front of him....he could score