Quote Originally Posted by engie View Post
My thing is just -- is "sacrificing" helping anything with those base runners? We should be 2 singles away from scoring them from first. I'd bet that statistically, it's a better play to hit and run or to straight steal these guys from first -- rather than taking the bat out of another(likely tremendous baserunner) with the sac. Which still takes a hit to score from second. And we strike out/pop up a bunch.

When I have the energy, I'm going to run through the exact numbers, because I'm curious to know...
Exactly. Sacrificing is not forcing pressure or playing aggressive.


Why Todd exactly do we have to go against the percentages just because we have fast runners. It's still the wrong play.