Photo by Michael Zagaris/Oakland Athletics/Getty Images The Oakland A’s are not known for stealing bases these days. Despite playing on a field named after Rickey Henderson, the all-time icon of running in baseball, they just haven’t been that into it during the 21st century. One of the core strategies of the original Moneyball philosophy was to not make mistakes and hand your opponent extra outs, and steals were not considered worthy of the gamble. Pretend general manager Brad Pitt succinctly explained it like this in the movie adaptation: “I pay you to get on first, not get thrown out at second.”