bunting is hard to do

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bunting is hard to do

Postby franky35 » Wed May 05, 2010 1:53 pm

I am not a big fan of bunting, but in my current team I have a poor hitter batting behind a good (but not great) base-stealer. I have manager settings for bunting "aggresive" and the poor hitter as "bunt more." Through 6 games, as far as I can tell, the bunter has not attempted a single bunt. I don't know why this is, maybe position in the lineup. But I'll watch it for more games and see what happens.

If people have advice on bunting, post it here.
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Postby franky35 » Mon May 31, 2010 1:11 am

an update. I have bunting set to "very aggressive" and Jerry Grote set to "bunt more." Grote is batting 6th vs. righties. At the halfway mark in the season, Grote has not made even 1 sac bunt. What is really astonishing to me is that I haven't seen one obvious bunting situation for Grote. I have Roy White hitting in front of Grote and White has good OBP, but he hits a fair number of doubles and has stolen quite a bit.

So, I've learned that the 6 position doesn't see many good bunting situations. I will follow this to see if Grote lays one down when an obvious bunting situation occurs.
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Postby franky35 » Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:39 am

the season is more than 2/3 over and Grote has not had one sac bunt. HAL just will not let Grote bunt. He has had several bunting opportunities (not a ton, but at least 5+ situations where a bunt would make sense), but he isn't bunting.

My last attempt will be to move Grote up to 2nd in the lineup, which I will try late in the season if it won't make a difference in the playoffs.
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Postby franky35 » Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:10 am

At the end of the season, I moved Grote up to 2nd for 9 games. Batting from the 2nd spot he got 2 sac bunts. In about 80 games at the 6 spot Grote got no sac bunts.

So, my conclusion is that HAL will not bunt from the 6 position in the lineup, but will bunt from the 2 position.
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Postby chunga1 » Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:01 am

thanks franky for the updates
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Postby franky35 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 11:53 am

On a different team, I notice that Hundley bunted from the 7th spot in the lineup.

Has anyone seen a bunt from the 6th spot in the lineup? If so, was there anything unusual about it?
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