You need to accumulate four bases to score a run, and obviously those four bases need to be accumulated consecutively. That is, a player who gets four singles with nobody on base in one game doesn't actually accumulate a run for those four bases. But you have to touch first, second, third, and home to score a run. So I'm breaking down runs - which is what ultimately counts in baseball (runs scored and preventing runs from scoring) - into total bases.
The traditional TB metric is simply the number of bases accumulated on hits (one for a single, two for a double, etc.). But I'm including walks, HBP, and base running too. B-ref shows stolen bases and caught stealing (obviously), but also gives us "bases taken" (that is, if you are on first and a single is hit, you get to second automatically, but if you get to third, that's an extra "base taken", for example) and "out on the bases" - so not force plays, but times when you're thrown out, say, trying to score on a possible sac fly. That kind of thing. So that gives us a total bases gained. I also subtract a base when you ground into a double play, since you're removing a runner from the base paths yourself. It's net subtraction. So the formulas are:
TOTAL bases: TB + BB + HBP + SB + BT - (DP + CS + OOB)
TOTAL bases per PA: TOTAL bases / PA
So here are the Sox' leaders in TOTAL bases:
O'Neill: 47
Duran: 40
Casas: 37
Yoshida: 26
McGuire: 21
Leaders in TOTAL bases per PA:
O'Neill: .810
McGuire: .568
Duran: .540
Casas: .522
Hamilton: .522
O'Neil is primarily piling up his bases on homers (7). Duran is a great combo so far of batting TB (26) and net base running TB (+7).
The traditional TB metric is simply the number of bases accumulated on hits (one for a single, two for a double, etc.). But I'm including walks, HBP, and base running too. B-ref shows stolen bases and caught stealing (obviously), but also gives us "bases taken" (that is, if you are on first and a single is hit, you get to second automatically, but if you get to third, that's an extra "base taken", for example) and "out on the bases" - so not force plays, but times when you're thrown out, say, trying to score on a possible sac fly. That kind of thing. So that gives us a total bases gained. I also subtract a base when you ground into a double play, since you're removing a runner from the base paths yourself. It's net subtraction. So the formulas are:
TOTAL bases: TB + BB + HBP + SB + BT - (DP + CS + OOB)
TOTAL bases per PA: TOTAL bases / PA
So here are the Sox' leaders in TOTAL bases:
O'Neill: 47
Duran: 40
Casas: 37
Yoshida: 26
McGuire: 21
Leaders in TOTAL bases per PA:
O'Neill: .810
McGuire: .568
Duran: .540
Casas: .522
Hamilton: .522
O'Neil is primarily piling up his bases on homers (7). Duran is a great combo so far of batting TB (26) and net base running TB (+7).