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Dominik85 posted:
2019Dad posted:

Wonder what the number is for high school baseball:

https://twitter.com/ChrisBurke.../1078854943153549313

There might be a selection bias though. Probably mostly very fast players try and often it probably was against the shift or an infield playing very deep.

If players did it more often the infield would probably play in on him.

Still i like the use of it occasionally especially to disrupt the use of unusual infield alingments.

Absolutely right. It's also typically used in college with some element of surprise. Those 7,000 bunts only represent 2% of all PAs. The numbers also don't reflect the foul balls/strikes. Having said all that, the success rate is high, so maybe there's room for a little more of it in college ball for the guys who aren't getting many XBH.

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