Quote Originally Posted by Smitty View Post
We KNOW we have a shitty pen. If we were calling a bunch of fastballs down the middle or telling the pitchers to hang breaking balls that would be something too. The pen is shitty.

If you CAN score 7, and settle for 5, would that be a problem? Just because "it should be enough to win" why on earth would you do ANYTHING to not score the most runs possible?
You can't quantify that we WOULD score 7 instead of five. You're playing percentages- and in some cases your very broad percentages that you focus on are in some cases fractions of runs and very small percentages of difference. That doesn't add up to two more runs.

Again, the thing you don't get and never will is you manage a game based on the in game individual situation. Which is actually the consensus among most baseball people and sabermetric people.

You're wanting us to ask a bunch of singles to not use their speed- and expecting to get extra base hits in return. Which is not what the odds say.

And yet how many times this year have we had a big inning where we've had a bunt single? Several.