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SteveP -
Make a list of your top Bunt For Hit rated guys in the league, and then give us a sim BA vs real BA for each of them. You will see that they consistently overperform by a considerable margin. All those bunt hits become bonus hits on top of the hits that they will normally get. Their bunt hits won't replace line drive singles to CF, they will just be in addition to those hits.
We can discuss the reasons why Bunt For Hit is curently the way it is in historicals when we get a beta board for OOTP10.
Essentially, it was turning .250 hitters into .350 hitters, over 500 AB that's like 40-50 bunt singles. And there ended up being thousands of these bunt hits in the league every year. That was causing great hitters like Ty Cobb struggle to hit .315, while Joe Schmoes were consistently hitting .340+ each season. There are only so many hits to spread across the league in historicals, and the high Bunt For Hit guys just rack up way too many that they don't deserve.
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