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Originally Posted by Curtis
Uhm… In that situation, I'd sure bunt. If the pitcher was a lousy bunter, I'd pinch-hit in someone who was good at it, then have HIM bunt. (Of course, all of this is game-situation dependent.)
You've gotta figure that bunting has a 75%+ chance of bringing the runner in, where hoping for a hit, error or sac fly would probably be around half of that. I'd feel pretty stupid if I let my pitcher swing away in a situation like that and he struck out.
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I can see some logic from your vantage point, but on the other hand I just can't sell myself on the idea that you can move a man to home from third with anywhere near the ease (or probability) you can from first to second or from second to third with the bunt. Now I may be wrong here, but IMO the odds are it'll result in a put-out at first and the runner on third holds, real life OR OOTP. And your PH option? Great, if it were used more often. But it isn't. The pitcher's bunt seems to be the rule, not the exception even with quality hitters (read that better than the P) on the bench.