Dirt 05 said:

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This isn't little league or high school baseball.

Statistically Earley made the worst decision possible 5/5 times when bunting this weekend. FFS he had the DH Schott attempt a bunt on Sunday. A college coach making players bunt is evidence of a weak coach grasping at straws after failing to build a roster of hitters, failing to develop the hitting of his team, and failing to make the best decisions in game.

https://oxfordeagle.com/2019/07/03/analysis-what-exactly-do-baseball-analytics-say-about-bunting/

TLDR? NEVER BUNT - BUNTING IS FOR LOSERS

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Creating Pressure with the Bunt
March 25, 2020
By Human Kinetics
By: Todd Guilliams

Originally Published in: High-Scoring Baseball

Provided by: Human Kinetics

The bunting game should be the foundation of your offensive arsenal. Augie Garrido, legendary head coach of the University of Texas Longhorns, in a 2002 article in Collegiate Baseball stated the value of a solid bunting game:

As far as total offense goes, the bunting game does play a role in that. There are three phases to offense. You must get on base. You must advance runners into scoring position. And then you must score runners. The bunting game allows a batter to do all three. You can bunt for a base hit to get on base. You can bunt to advance runners, obviously. You can squeeze bunt or safety squeeze to score runners. (Lou Pavovich, Jr, "Small ball: A Secret Weapon," p.6, 2002)

A high-powered offense has a reputation for being able to execute the bunting game at any time and at any spot in the batting order. This ability gives the offense an advantage because the defense must be on its toes on every pitch. "Bunting is one of the first lessons our new players learn," said George Horton, former head coach at Cal State Fullerton ("Small ball," 2002).

Defensive miscues are often a result of three things in terms of reacting to the short game: good placement, deception (the hitter's ability to disguise the fact that he is bunting), and the bunter's ability to get down the line quickly. The correct execution of the bunting game creates confusion on the part of the defense because they do not know when or where the offense might use all their various bunting weapons. The proper mentality for the bunting game is that there is no such thing as a sacrifice bunt. The high-scoring offense has a mentality that they are not giving up an out but are simply moving a runner up 90 feet (27.4 m). The best thing that could happen is for the defense to hurry and create a two-base error.

Well-placed bunts create pressure by making the defense hurry their throws and forcing the corner infielders to shallow up to counter the threat of the bunt. The bunt game dictates defensive positioning, which gives the hitter a better chance of getting a base hit. The infielder has decreased his normal range by coming in toward the hitter.

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RED AG 98 said:

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I am team virtually never bunt. There are a couple of situations at most where I think it's acceptable even if not preferred...

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