No, that’s not the total percentage of votes Sal had in the All-Star voting (although, I’m sure it was close, then again, I’ll never know because MLB refuses to release the final results, why you ask?, they won’t say, almost as pathetic as Bud Selig’s dancing around the Bonds issue, “I haven’t made up my mind…”, hmnn, well, maybe you should Mr. Magoo, maybe you should), that is the percentage of runners that the Jays have thrown out without Sal this season. As Jordan Bastian notes at MLB.com:
Through 90 games, the Blue Jays have yielded an American League-high 84 stolen bases, and the club’s catchers owned an 11 percent caught-stealing average, which is the lowest in the big leagues. The Major League average for caught-stealing percentage is 26.
If veteran Sal Fasano, who threw out runners roughly 21 percent of the time earlier this year for the Jays, is taken out of the mix, catchers Gregg Zaun and Jason Phillips have combined for just a nine percent caught-stealing percentage.
“That’s how teams try to exploit us,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said. “That’s all I have to say.”
Good thing he plays for the Chiefs.
