Appropriate times to bunt

Illustrious Potentate said:
I expect my 6 hole batter to have some pop and driving in runs, not bunting for a single
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Play the short game then and swing for the fences. I'll play small ball and get runners on for my guys who are scarier when the pitchers has to go from the stretch and he's focusing on a base runner.
 
fordman84 said:
You need a couple of hits to get that run, but I only need one bunt to change the defense the rest of the game.
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Unless the team is fine with giving up a bunt single, which most are. I always laughed at the people that thought David Ortiz was a genius for bunting against the shift. Pretty sure the opposing team was perfectly fine with that outcome
 
Plus pitchers hate it when someone does the random bunt against them. Now I'm in their head, with a speedster on first. Oh yeah, and he can only throw over twice to keep him honest. And don't fume too long, the pitch clock is running.

You can do a lot by getting a runner on base.
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
Unless the team is fine with giving up a bunt single, which most are. I always laughed at the people that thought David Ortiz was a genius for bunting against the shift. Pretty sure the opposing team was perfectly fine with that outcome
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Most teams aren't going to be fine giving up a bunt single any time the other team wants it. So they will play the corners up a step. A step is all I need to get a ball down the line or over his head.
 
fordman84 said:
Play the short game then and swing for the fences. I'll play small ball and get runners on for my guys who are scarier when the pitchers has to go from the stretch and he's focusing on a base runner.
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And then you’re down 6-0 before you know it because you’d rather bunt than hit dingers
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
And then you’re down 6-0 before you know it because you’d rather bunt than hit dingers
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Sounds like now you have pitching and defense issues that no amount of bunting is going to solve.
 
fordman84 said:
Plus pitchers hate it when someone does the random bunt against them. Now I'm in their head, with a speedster on first. Oh yeah, and he can only throw over twice to keep him honest. And don't fume too long, the pitch clock is running.

You can do a lot by getting a runner on base.
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And then Sean Murphy just catches them trying to steal and you wasted a shot at an extra base hit
 
If a player in my lineup tries to bunt for a hit and gets thrown out, I’m benching his ass
 
Left handed hitter vs a left handed pitcher who falls off the mound. Bunt towards to 1st/2nd base hole. Pitcher out of position to cover 1st.

Too many variables to limit strategy.
 
This discussion triggered a memory of this article.

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The bunt base hit is dead. (Long live the bunt base hit!)

Home runs are at a historic high, and bunt hits are way down. The former is responsible for the latter, right? Perhaps. Or maybe something else has changed that means bunt hits aren't just out of fashion again -- they're going extinct.
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fordman84 said:
It's all cyclical. It will be back, and the first time to do it will look like geniuses.
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I doubt it in the launch angle and exit Velo era. Stolen bases will definitely be coming back, but I doubt bunting will with the analytics
 
fordman84 said:
Because baseball is a team GAME and you can manipulate the defense and take control of the game/series by having a strategy that is more than "swing as hard as you can".
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Carry on
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
You really gonna trust a catcher to get a good bunt down? That has hard bunt right back to pitcher and a tag out at third written all over it
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Garrett Stubbs bunts whenever he damn well likes.

 
Bender said:
Garrett Stubbs bunts whenever he damn well likes.

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Pretty slick with two outs. I’d still rather have the 3 run Dinger.

Our resident retard on the Braves board prefers sac flies to rbi hits, so this is still a step in the right direction
 
If I’m a pitcher and I have any inkling that the hitter is thinking about bunting, I’m throwing some high and inside heat
 
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