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[MSDawg34]

You can do all of those things without the unnecessary sac bunt which results in an out pretty much every time.

Leadoff hitters do not typically sac bunt either, they typically try to get on for your best HITTERS to HIT them in

2 triple plays are an anomaly you cant seriously use that as an argument. I counter with the 1st inning of our regular season win vs LSU. You would bunt there with Porter with 1st and 2nd 0 outs. We didn't. We score 5 and the game is over. Thats college ball. Its those big innings that Cohen cost us this year.

We couldn't bunt that well either, we probably screwed up around 15. That's atrocious. 5 innings worth of unproductive outs. We gave up 2 and a half games worth of outs with the sac.

We didn't need a lot of runs - until we needed a few runs and didn't get them, and got sent home. It was impossible for the pitchers to keep up their pace. Their greatness covered up these problems. As many close, low scoring games as we had if we had just an above average staff instead of a great staff, we lose 6 more SEC games.

 

[Todd4State]

That's what your stats won't show- how pressure affects the other team. A lot of times the threat of something- not just bunting, but hit and running, stealing, and etc. That's why I say we need to add speed as well as power. Sometimes fast runners can turn bunts into hits or errors. Again- pressure.

You are assuming that every time we bunt, it's a straight up sacrifice. There are a lot of different kinds of bunts- some are designed to try to get a hit. For example- a drag bunt, and then there are squeeze plays. We didn't sacrifice every single time we bunted. And it's hilarious that you point to our last game of the year where a squeeze play would have tied the game as "proving what you have been saying all year".

We may have screwed up 15 bunts this year out of how many times this year, but I've also seen us strike out 16 times in a game. We may not have been good at bunting, but we were better at it than hitting.

And yes I can use the two triple plays in my arguement because it helps support what I'm saying. What- do you have some sort of a rule against that? Triple plays don't count? Seriously?

And as far as the pitching staff- once again- you have to know your players. We had a dominant staff, we knew it, and we knew that we didn't have to score a whole lot to win most of the time. If we had an in your words above average staff, we probably bunt less because we probably would have needed some more big innings.