Its going to be tough, but very possible, for him to get to the 40 stolen bases necessary to gain entry this season. However, there was a really interesting article on Fangraphs about Acuna's journey to accomplish this feat:
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/ronald-a...he-40-40-club/
Something from the article that I found kind of interesting were the ZiPS projections for him over the next 10 years. ZiPS projects Acuna to have 7.8 40 home run seasons and 2.2 seasons of 40 stolen bases. That means that it is very possible that Acuna could become the first person to achieve 40/40 seasons multiple times.
I've always found these arbitrary milestones to be kinda silly, but these projections really do show just how insanely special this guy is. Its gonna be a lot of fun to look back on his statistics 20 years from now to see what he accomplished.
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