42 bunts, 21 bunt hits -- Carlos Gomez, 2008*
So Gomez has been successful (and by successful, I mean successful in reaching base, not successful in the productive out sense) half of the time he's bunted this year. What happens if we divide his plate appearances into bunts and non-bunts?
.235/.276/.352 -- Gomez, 2008, not bunting
.500/.500/.500 -- Gomez, 2008, bunting
.266/.301/.370 -- Gomez, 2008, overall
In general, bunting gets a bad rap because, in general, a player is going to give up an out when he bunts. But Carlos Gomez is a freak. When he bunts, it's to increase his OBP, and thus far, bunting has gotten him on base more than frequently than swinging away has.
*Statistics through July 7th, 2008
Bremer is right! Bunty McBunterson should bunt more! Boy, he sucks when he's not bunting.
It's a useful spice to have on the spice rack, when added to the proper foods.
(trying to find a good analogy to help bS out here)
Quick, someone apply the "food metaphor" tag.
heh. If tags applied down to the comment level, WGOM would collapse under the weight
Gomez looks like he could use the All-Star Break or a few days off.
I agree. Anyone else notice that Dell-Mon's uptick kind of coincided with his having a few days off?
"Kind of coincided." Is that like a moderate correlation?
Do these stats include Gomez striking out during bunt attempts?
Plus the other at bats when he attempts to bunt, gets a couple strikes called, and changes his mind?
Who would have thought you could reach a 1.000 OPS through bunting?
Obviously if he bunted every at bat infielders would just stand right in front of him, but ....
and then he could learn the Casilla method of bunting to centerfield!