GDT #19 4/21/14: Marlins (Koehler) @ Braves (Teheran), 7:10

Modok said:
I am all for calling a spade a spade in regards to Fredi....However, I dont get the bashing in this game. The bunt was the right call with Marmol's wildness. The first pitch swinging is on the players.
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Why does wildness from a pitcher make bunting a good move? If anything wildness could make it harder to get a bunt down, which Jason didn't. Jason should have looked at a lot of pitcher, which every batter should have done (and they didn't).
 
Krovahn said:
Sorry. When trying to quickly type stuff up to combat the mass of idiots that have been posting in here tonight, simple mistakes like that happen. the point holds, though; bunting there, especially with how Heyward has been struggling, was the right move. He just didn't get it down.
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heyward drove the go ahead run in earlier in the game

it was the wrong call
 
yeezus said:
I just disagree philosophically. I think because he's been struggling and is your one of your catalysts, he has to be swinging there. All he needs is a single. A fly ball to right moves the guy over the same way a bunt does. He should have been able to get the bunt down, but he should not have been bunting IMO.
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The way I look at it, he isn't a superstar player at this point. In that situation, from a pure baseball standpoint, you are bunting the runner to third unless you are a 'superstar' type player. I don't care if he is a 'catalyst' or not. He hasn't been playing like one. You play for the win and bunting there gives you the best shot; he just couldn't get it down.
 
yeezus said:
Why does wildness from a pitcher make bunting a good move? If anything wildness could make it harder to get a bunt down, which Jason didn't. Jason should have looked at a lot of pitcher, which every batter should have done (and they didn't).
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If he gets the bunt down JS is on third. Hence the wildness factor.
 
Modok said:
I am all for calling a spade a spade in regards to Fredi....However, I dont get the bashing in this game. The bunt was the right call with Marmol's wildness. The first pitch swinging is on the players.
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Patience is the right call. If Jason swings there's a good chance he moves him over and also a chance he wins the game.
 
hope we keep it tied and it gets back to Heyward to hit a walk off homerun to prove how dumb the call was
 
KeithLockhart said:
Tensions are high in here. Everyone take a chillax pill. We're gonna be hee8a while.
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Fredi is an idiot for bunting Heyward...

Side note. We begged for runners to get on for Freeman. Now that they are, he is going ice cold :Sad:
 
Krovahn said:
The way I look at it, he isn't a superstar player at this point. In that situation, from a pure baseball standpoint, you are bunting the runner to third unless you are a 'superstar' type player. I don't care if he is a 'catalyst' or not. He hasn't been playing like one. You play for the win and bunting there gives you the best shot; he just couldn't get it down.
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I think they need to get him going like a "superstar." He can't be batting under .200. They need to get him going. He had an RBI single earlier, a nice drive - let him try it again. He's your leadoff hitter coming off a very good year. If a catalyst is struggling, you want to get them going. RBI opportunities get them going, while bunting a guy over doesn't. Even if he did get the bunt down, it was the wrong call. It did stink he couldn't, though.
 
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