Who is/was the least sucessful baserunner of all time?

Question

Who has the least amount of net steals. (greatest negative number) Net steals are SB - CS.

Answer 1

Gus Triandos or Sherm Lollar. Both of those guys were so slow it looked like they were running backwards.

Answer 2

Based on 100+ caught stealing, there's only two players that got caught more times than they stole.  

Charlie Jamieson - 97 SB, 110 CS - 46.9%

Babe Ruth - 110 SB, 117 CS - 48.5%

Next on the list would be Lou Gehrig with 102 and 101 for 50.2%

Note: Prior to 1920, caught stealing records were not very accurate so Ruth's 13 steals in 1918 and 1919 and Jamieson's 34 steals between 1915 and 1919 are not figured in their totals

The biggest negative (regardless of CS quantity) would be -31 by...

Pat Duncan - 53 SB (+2 pre-1920), 84 CS - 38.7%

Next on the list with -24 is....

Buddy Bell - 55 SB, 79 CS - 41.0%

Answer 3

I don't know, probably Jose or Benjie Molina

Answer 4

Babe Ruth? who knows, thats way to much stats to sort through for all time, Ruth had 123 steals to his 117 times caught. About a 50/50 split

Answer 5

Loads of people!

Answer 6

Ruben Rivera