Is there a way to set how often someone attempts to steal as in SLB

Unfortunately, no.

No but I wish they would add it to Player Settings

The best base stealer I ever saw in HBD maxed out his ratings at 96 Baserunning and 99 Speed. In his best season he stole 103 and was caught 3 times. What more would you like him to do?

Considering the state of today's game, a 96/99 player probably shouldn't exist. Remember that HBD seems to be modelled on the style of baseball being played at least 20 years ago.

Point being, IMO, that if this game added Individual stealing - without modifying the current player generation models - base stealing numbers would be ridiculous.

There are still incredibly fast players in MLB, but managers allow stealing less these days due to moneyball-era repudiations of the value of stolen bases.

You're describing the best base stealer you ever saw, of course he's going to have the best base stealing stats you've ever seen. The issue is not that the best base stealers can't steal bases, it's that if you want to be aggressive with those players you need to change a setting that also causes you to try to steal with your 35-speed 1B a bunch of times per season. That doesn't make any sense. The 99 speed base stealer should be able to have a green light without causing a bunch of other slow guys to counteract his success by getting caught 40 times a year.

People have asked for this ability many times, Unfortunately the developers have said that this is something they cannot do. I don’t know why exactly, but that’s what they told us.

it definitely affects strategy. If you have a high running team, you have to watch out for guys with like 75 speed and 40 base running, because they’ll be a liability to your team. On my high running teams, I try to avoid drafting those guys, or I trade them away when I can.

I agree with damag - if they changed this feature, they would need to change the success rates of individual stealers. As is, the worst stealers get caught way too much, but the guys with like 98 speed and 80+ base running almost never get caught.

Update: I found one of the places where they talked about this, back in 2016. In this chat they essentially said they wouldn’t change it, not that they couldn’t. But in the second link below, way back in 2007, they flat out said that they couldn’t do it.

https://www.whatifsports.com/devchat/devchat.asp?chatid=105

https://www.whatifsports.com/devchat/devchat.asp?chatid=59