Announcers picking up on the fact that Beckham would almost never swing and miss a ball last year...or very very rarely.
We'll go with the Mark Teahen/BB/OBP theory...taking two walks is a positive, seeing pitches better, certainly better for his confidence than striking out.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/b...nded/order/true
White Sox, for the first time in my lifetime, are leading the AL in SB's in May (and two ahead of the Padres for the MLB lead). Or maybe that season, the final one in the old ballpark, we were close, that team ran a ton, too.