This is a response to a friend who commented on the previous post:
I gave you the statistics. When I say a team should squeeze or they won’t score, they NEVER score if they don’t squeeze. Therefore, if the squeeze only worked ONCE for all the times I’ve said the teams should squeeze, my teams would be ahead. Why does everyone think there is a risk to squeezing, but no one thinks there is a risk to not squeezing?
You are right–many major league (and american league) players can’t bunt. Why? It’s because teams don’t work on this, and teams don’t make their power hitters practice bunting. This is ridiculous. Bunting at critical times should be a skill everyone has. Your power hitter could come up in a squeeze situation. I believe Ernie Banks was the best bunter on the Cubs when he played. I’m not for sacrifice bunting as a rule, as I hate to give up outs, but I am for squeezing in those critical situations. Are you justifying teams not squeezing because they didn’t teach their players this skill? That would be like NFL teams (other than the Packers who would have no need for this) not teaching their punter how to punt, and wondering why they can’t punt in punting situations.
N.L. baseball is much more exciting than a.l. baseball. There is more strategy without the DH. What kind of position is it when you have to wake the guy up every 30 minutes and tell him to go bat? By your logic, why not go to two platoons like football–an offensive platoon and a defensive platoon?