re: Nola

I'm sorry, but this argument is ridiculous, even though it sounds good at first glance.

The basic fact is that a sacrifice bunt is not an attempt to get on base. OBP is designed to measure how often a player gets on base when he is trying to get on base.

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Players with an extreme number of bunts look like a much better hitter than they really are by deleting sacrifices.

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No, by your own logic, those players look pretty bad because they have poor batting averages. They already look like the bad hitters they are. Your plan would punish them doubly, counting plate appearances against them when they aren't even trying to get on base. In the case of a sacrifice bunt, the player does not normally have the opportunity to get on base.