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Question: why did the Twins shop Arraez rather than Polanco? I feel like Arraez' skill set is much rarer, and more likely to age well. Is this simply a case of selling high?

Musk21, thanks for the article - this is easily the best compilation of such data that I've seen. It's also so recent that it doesn't even confirm Torii's numbers in full. Brock, while it's entirely in the realm of possibility that Torii has stolen more home runs than any other Twin in history, the plexiglass only stretched to deep left center. That surely cut down the opportunities, but it's at best a third of the fence line. If Dan Gladden was the thief in question, we'd be talking about a greater impact. Anecdotally, all the Puckett leaps I recall (other than the '91 Series) came right in front of the 408 numbers. cHawk, I'm not familiar with baseballsavant - when I tried to search, I couldn't find much beyond the statcast era. The one option that I'm seeing is a review of Retrosheet play-by-play descriptions game by game. That's a tall task.

Hello, all - I'm a frequent TwinsDaily reader but I don't believe I've posted in the forums before. A question has occurred to me, and I can't seem to find the answer anywhere in the forums or elsewhere online. If the answer exists, I suspect the readers here can point me in the right direction. Kirby Puckett is known leaping above the outfield fence to steal homeruns. Is there a tally of the homeruns he stole - either by year, or over the course of his career? Is there a tally of other players (I'm mostly concerned with Twins, but I'm curious about other teams as well). My assumption is that Puckett is the Twins all time leader in homeruns stolen, but maybe Torii Hunter has him beat? Any ideas as to whether this has been compiled?