Bunting is a valide tactic
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Bunting is just fine. It is MLB ball players not being able to reach down and pick up a ball rolling at 17 mph that is broke. Or if they do make that miraculous grab, they decide to come set and wind up on their throw to first base.
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@ChuckCLC said in Bunting is a valide tactic:
Bunting is just fine. It is MLB ball players not being able to reach down and pick up a ball rolling at 17 mph that is broke. Or if they do make that miraculous grab, they decide to come set and wind up on their throw to first base.
Yeah, the speed of the throws and tags is off.
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The issue isn't necessarily that an Ichiro level bunter can get on a couple times a game with bunts. It's that anyone with 85+ speed can get on 3+ times a game no matter where the pitcher puts it. If Ozzie Smith bunted for a couple hits on me, Fine. When Jimmy Rollins does it??????????????
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When players start bunting with Gary Sanchez or whatever, its just not really baseball anymore.
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Some People don’t like it when somebody bunts a lot but that same person who’s mad at them for “bunt cheesing”, usually has their own quirk about them like only throwing 102 mph fastballs or up and in sinkers, or taking an extra lead every pitch, etc. We all have our ways lol
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It can be defensed, so it’s fair.
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I love to duck off with bunt cheese
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Bunting to lead off a game with 2 strikes and 99 Mickey Mantle is a disgrace. Squeezing with 99 Tatis and the bases loaded is more of a disgrace. Both of these happened to me today.
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@Lornee56 said in Bunting is a valide tactic:
Bunting to lead off a game with 2 strikes and 99 Mickey Mantle is a disgrace. Squeezing with 99 Tatis and the bases loaded is more of a disgrace. Both of these happened to me today.
Now that is a big yikes. I only ever drag with Mondesi vs RHP, Jackie, or Cobb. Everyone else swings. I also don't bunt unless I'm behind or in a tied game, I try not to bunt early so I can take advantage of the bunt later in the game.
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Shoot, I barely won my last RS game against a bunter. He has Mondesi and Cobb as his lead off and #2. Mondesi reached with a bunt. He stole 2nd. Pretty sure Cobb also reached with a bunt.
He knocked 1 run in on a blooper. 0-1 with 2 outs, I struck him out in the dirt.... throwing error.Next pitch... 3 run homer to make it 0-4 in the 1st.
So in the 8th, my first 2 batters reach base. I decide to fight fire with fire and drag with Rollins with 2 outs to load the bases.
Next pitch, Griffey grand slam to tie it up.I go on to hit a 2 run HR with Mantle for the win.
Moral of the story.... I’m not going to bunt like that unless my opponent is. Did I earlier in the year? Maybe.... am I proud of that? No lol.
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It’s cheesy only because the fielding is broken and it’s basically exploiting a glitch. I’ve had two opponents reach base with 40-something speed (I think Thome and Frank) on dribblers in front of the catcher this week. Not because I did anything wrong, just because the fielders have no urgency whatsoever.
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Bunting is cowards!!
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