The value of pushing the short game towards the end of the season..?

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Jun 11, 2013
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I agree that some teams use it too much, but you still need to be able to bunt when called upon. If you can hit 500 you can easily get down a bunt if you want to. That doesn't mean that I would bunt with a girl with a 500 BA, but if the situation dictates it I would expect that hitter can do it.
 
Jan 24, 2011
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I agree that some teams use it too much, but you still need to be able to bunt when called upon. If you can hit 500 you can easily get down a bunt if you want to. That doesn't mean that I would bunt with a girl with a 500 BA, but if the situation dictates it I would expect that hitter can do it.

If a player has a .500 BA then the pitching she is facing probably isn't that good anyway. Why bunt? :)
 

JAD

Feb 20, 2012
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I agree with everything yer sayin but when the player has failed the last 15 sac attempts do ya still shoot for 16?......

Any player on our team who had 15 consecutive failed sacrifice bunt attempts would be sitting on the bench next to me cheering as one of her teammates DH'd for her......
 
Nov 26, 2010
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If its fundamental ball every player should either know how to do it. Or be working on it. If Crystal Butros can put down a bunt when it called for so can every other player who doesn't have her hitting ability and power.
 
Dec 7, 2011
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I agree with all the challenges that a 14-17 yr old should bunt.

It's just that within on tb season, when ya find that the majority of your team turns into mental midgets, at the call for a bunt, then just dont do it any more! Then at the end of the season this becomes a big red-mark on their rehire....

(I am very confident that each of the majority on the team that for some reason couldn't bunt, it was because of a mental block. It was not one of those unruly players that refuses to bunt by forcing a failure. THAT would not have been tolerated.)

Honestly there was a majority on the team last year that just could not get it done,...at all,... - it was a curse I think.....
 
Apr 13, 2010
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Bunting is an underappreciated skill. My DD spent an entire fall season in the 2 hole bunting the lead off hitter over. She was 9 of 10 on sacrifices that season. I think the runner scored 90% of the time.

That was 12U. As the kids get older that play gets harder. Still, if you can sting and ding as the poster above states you're going to get noticed. No one notices the kid who laid down the bunt that got the girl on first over to third and on the next at bat the girl at third scores the winning run. All made possible by the bunt, but no one remembers that.

Just a fact of life.

I also am pretty sure no one cares if you can bunt if you sting and ding. They'll always assume that you can learn. Then the situation will come up and you'll fail to get the bunt down and the coach will get mad at you cause it's just a stupid bunt and "anyone" can do that. And then everyone will forget about it and you won't learn how to bunt for another season.
 
Jun 24, 2013
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We currently are teaching our 8U team to bunt and teaching everyone. We are also teaching them sliding as well as the normal stuff like throwing, baserunning and playing their positions. I have found that if you wait until later that all of these skills become harder to teach as the girls become more resistant to perform them, especially bunting and sliding. I have more 12U/14U girls telling me that they "can't bunt" or "can't slide" than I do at 8U.
 

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