A Need for Speed: 4 Twins Players Sprint Speed Tied to Offensive Improvement

I have no idea if sprint speed is only calculated when a player is running at top speed or if they are measured every time they run, regardless of the effort.  My old and somewhat cataract-impaired eyes have noticed that Julien cruises to first base rather than sprinting when he feels he's going to be thrown out.  I hate that!  Hustle at all times.  You never know when a throw might be wild or mishandled.

I’d like to see Martin’s sprint speed. He has a rep as a speed guy, but it seems it is more about instincts than raw speed. 
 

Castro’s legs really helped last year, but so far he has a caught stealing and was picked off as a pinch runner. 

1 hour ago, Doctor Gast said:

I don't think Correa will ever try to steal another base. We need Castro to get on base to steal those bases. Even though Buxton is excited about his new found health, I tend to believe his stolen bases will be limited. Martin is the one I'm really excited about running the bases. I'm not really concerned about Julien's offensive speed, although he leads off. What I'm really concerned about is his defensive speed (range). You can cheat a little to help his OAA but if a hitter doesn't hit as you expect you are vulnerable. Also you have Correa & Santana cheat towards Julien (further from the line) to compensate which makes them vulnerable. I'm not able to watch a lot of games but it seems to me that there are a few GBs are getting through that shouldn't. All this because the Twins are dead set of having Julien playing 2B.

Buxton's SB's are already limited.  He has  a career .300 OBP and 80 some SB's.

21 hours ago, chpettit19 said:

It's possible there's some noise in his sprint speed numbers because of this at such an early point of the season, but not super likely. Statcast does take out the slowest of their runs (25% or 33% or something around there, but I don't remember exactly what that equation is). They use the top speed during the fastest 1 second window on plays where they go two bases or more and on plays where they've hit the ball weakly and are sprinting home to first. If he's not trying on even weakly hit balls that's a major problem, but I think that'd be something the clubhouse would deal with very quickly. They aren't counting his speed on routine grounders.

Julien currently has 11 "competitive runs" so it's definitely a very small sample size. But concerning still. 

Statcast could use an hour glass to tIme me.  Back forty years ago when I was in my mid-30s, I lost 40 pounds over a winter and then spent the spring running 50 yard wind sprints to get ready for softball.  My first time at bat, I hit a ball into the gap between the right-center and left-center outfielders.  Time to show off the new me.  I barely made it to second base.  I was just as slow as ever.  It was so disappointing that I gained all the weigh back (and a few extra).

20 hours ago, Doctor Gast said:

What I'm really concerned about is his defensive speed (range). You can cheat a little to help his OAA but if a hitter doesn't hit as you expect you are vulnerable.

Also you have Correa & Santana cheat towards Julien (further from the line) to compensate which makes them vulnerable.

If a hitter doesn't hit as you expect, you will be vulnerable regardless of your foot speed.

I have not witnessed instances of cheating towards Julien.  Correa does move close to 2B for some left-handed batters, but that's true no matter who is playing 2B.  Maybe you think he's cheating because he's moving faster this season and getting to more balls that are closer to Julien?