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The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that Theo is mandating the run for a lot of reasons, but one of them being that he'll have a built in excuse not to run when the team is good.
"Look, we ran in the past and we were AWFUL. Time to change it up and be smarter on the basepaths."
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I'll put my tinfoil hat away now.
It's so simple it's brilliant.
Or only run when you have players who aren't stupid.