Comments on: Stranded

By: Susan Petrone

Susan Petrone — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:34:12 +0000

Good point, Drew. You know, I swear once in a while I see Hafner show bunt when there aren’t any runners on base.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:43:02 +0000

Susan, you make a great argument on the bunt. Most of the time, it creates an out and a team only gets 3 in an inning. If I were Travis Hafner, I’d learn to bunt down the 3B line and keep doing it until the defense quits shifting, then swing away. I mean, the man goes out 77% of the time right now, I’ll take the odds that bunting will reduce that amount.

By: Susan Petrone

Susan Petrone — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:26:57 +0000

Drew: I’ll admit I’m not a big fan of the bunt, but once in a while it would be useful to at least show bunt…

Mary Jo: I don’t steal titles, just bases.

By: Mary Jo

Mary Jo — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 05:08:21 +0000

Is it really that high of an average? I would have figured somewhere in the middle-upper 100s.

I mentioned elsewhere that I should write a murder mystery called “Death on Third Base”. Maybe I will, maybe I won’t, but if I see a book with that title under YOUR name Susan I won’t waste any time hunting you down.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:43:38 +0000

It seems like the Indians are always hitting into inning-crippling DPs. I don’t care who it is, but every player should know how to bunt. I had a coach, for whom I played travel ball in high school, who always at least would have u us show bunt on the first pitch of an at-bat with runners on 1st and 2nd and no-outs. Even the #4 hitter. The defense and the pitcher have to react! What if you draw in the 3B on the play but send the runner from second? No one is covering 3B or it becomes a foot race with the SS. Now all of the sudden you have runners at the corners with no-outs!

I cannot wait until I get to coach little league…

By: Susan Petrone

Susan Petrone — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:32:13 +0000

Patrick, I share your frustration. For “Runner on 3rd, less than 2 outs,” we have a .282 average, 22nd in the majors.

By: PatrickSands

PatrickSands — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:53:05 +0000

I think hitting with runners in scoring position is very important but I would like to see some statistics on players being able to sacrifice when they have a chance. For instance a runner on second with nobody out. Who can get a meaningful out? Hit the ball to the right side of the infield, or with a man on third with 1 or 0 outs who can get the run home? I haven’t seen us bunt to get somebody to third in ages it feels like (granted I don’t get to see many games, but I stare at gamecast for hours). These are just little things but when you have no power these are things you MUST do. We have a team that is built to play NL style small ball but Acta still tries to play AL ball and let hitters swing away when a sacrifice will do.

- Frustrated Indians Fan