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But they have executed sac bunts before so the team does know how to do it. You guys do realize that sometimes players just mess up right? It’s not always because of coaching. I’m all for bashing CPM for personnel and strategic decisions but in the sport of baseball the action on the field after the pitch leaves a pitchers hands is mainly on the players.

Dumb take. Sometimes the players are to blame

Gio obviously struggles with the bunting game
Todd Walker talks about bunting a lot and when and when not to try and do it
He told stories of his professional playing career when a coach asked him to bunt he would tell them I can hit a grounder wherever you want to move the runner over rather than trying to bunt which I'm not good at
It's not easy bunting a 90+ mph fastball or some kind of breaking pitch

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. I am an anti-bunter all the time anyway. I don’t like giving up outs especially in today’s baseball where strike outs are more prevalent.

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I'm generally an anti-buntite.

I do think that as you work your way down on the talent spectrum, the bunt increasingly has a place in the game.

Guys that can't hit as well can potentially be effective at the plate moving guys over or even stealing hits every once in a while.

It's a guaranteed out in the majors, but it's not a guaranteed out in college, necessarily.

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That would go under blaming him for a strategic decision which I’m all for doing. I am an anti-bunter all the time anyway. I don’t like giving up outs especially in today’s baseball where strike outs are more prevalent. With that said, Gio has a couple sacrifices on the year so it’s not like it’s unprecedented to call on him to do it.

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That’s why I noted that maybe Gio didn’t want to bunt.
If he bunted before, he couldn’t have looked that bad.

It was a good spot fir a bunt. Late in the game and wasn’t the pitcher a leftie?

Baseball is a game where a 300 average, which is very good, means you fail more than twice as much as you succeed.

If a QB had a 30 percent completion percentage, he would be benched.

Baseball is a different game.

Does anyone know how much time CPM spends at practice, working on bunts, before OP makes another ignorant post?

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That’s why I noted that maybe Gio didn’t want to bunt.
If he bunted before, he couldn’t have looked that bad.

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Bunting isn’t easy. Major league players frick up bunt attempts all the time. Sometimes a player is unable to execute. Routine grounders go through legs. Routine fly balls pop out of gloves. A throw to first base sails. A pitch runs too far inside and clips the batter and yes a bunt gets botched.

In every one of those situations it’s not that the player doesn’t know how to do it and it’s not that he doesn’t want to do it. Players in every sport at every level just frick it up sometimes. You’re looking way too deep into this.

This go both ways it is the coaches responsibility to make sure every person who steps on the field can bunt. How can you expect to swing a bat to hit a ball but can't stick a bat to touch a ball. It is the players responsibility to perfect his craft. I'm pretty sure when they are in the cages they hit 200 balls typically all different types of pitches. But how many practice everyday bunting 100 pitches. Practices makes perfect.now when you have to squeeze or trying to bunt for a hit , that is different. You can't control where the ball is thrown. But in a sac, if its a strike you bunt if it isn't you pull it back. But if only practicing bunting 10% of the time in the cage , you will get 10% results.