When you think of our Phils, you think of a team that likes to put ducks on the pond and wait for someone to drive them home with the long ball. But could it be that, in addition to a great power team, the Phillies are a great baserunning team too? This from Sports Illustrated:

The Phillies, who finished first in the NL East in both 2007 and ’08, by a combined total of four games, were the best baserunning team in baseball during those two seasons, according to Fox’s data. Two big reasons: the stolen base efficiency of shortstop Jimmy Rollins (he swiped 88 bases with a 91% success rate in ’07–08) and the extra bases taken by second baseman Chase Utley (in ’07 and ’08 he went from first to third on a single 22 times in 43 opportunities, nearly 10% more successfully than the average major leaguer). Philadelphia’s baserunning excellence may have been overlooked by many, but not by Maddon, whose Rays lost to the Phillies in five games in last year’s World Series. “That was a very big reason why they weren’t just a very good team—they were a great team,” he says.