Flush It and Get Over It!
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Cora knew Reyes would fail at the bunt and Yoshida would move the runners over with a grounder. 3D chess.
I think I'm going to become a Romy fan. Almost as much as the person who invented Post-It Notes..
Nice to get the runs, but I was really hoping to see Rafaela stay above the Mendoza line for a bit longer...
The post-its inventor is a Romy fan. That's cool but how do you happen to know that?
Yoshida needs to forget everything anyone ever told him about American baseball and just go back to his Japanese form/approach. If he's only a .270 hitter with a ton of walks that'd be a huge jump from whatever the hell he's doing now.
English is like, my first language, man. You can't expect me to implement it properly every time.
What I meant was, "almost as much as I am a fan of the person who invented Post Its." But I am probably the only person here who gets that reference.
My mother's godmother, one of the most quintessential 'old Italian ladies' you ever met, was a Romey (short for Romelia). I have been a fan of this pickup ever since.
Imo, the problem with the Reyes at bat was not the decision to bunt; it was his inability to do so. Yoshi puts the ball in play but is a double play machine - it was a perfectly fine time to bunt. It’s pathetic when a non stud hitter can’t even do it.
It's simple actually. He needs to sit in a quiet room and ask himself, "what would a good hitter do"? And then he needs to do that thing.
I assume that's two SUCCESSFUL bunts... I wonder how many he fucked up. Because he fucked up three in that plate appearance.
I did know what you meant, to be fair. I saw a cheap shot and I took it. Because: (1) you're the kind of guy here who can take it, and (2) that's the kind of shithead I am.
Out of how many attempts?
Very very few hitters can bunt on command. It may portend thecend of civilization, but its a fact. So its both a bad play and one thats unlikely to be performed successfully.
It’s a vicious circle. Analytics hate bunting, less players are asked to do it so they don’t practice it so when they’re asked to do it they suck at it.
I totally get devers not knowing how to do it but if you’re Reyes, how do you not know how to put down a bunt. It blows my mind
He probably "knows how."
(I know what you mean. I think its a skill that some guys suck at. Like fielding.)