The Dodgers Mastered the Bunt and Nobody Cared | Baseball Bits
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The Dodgers. The Sacrifice Bunt. 2019. That's what this episode of Baseball Bits is about. MLB Bunting is in decline, and has been for about a decade. But the 2019 Dodgers with a trio of Clayton Kershaw, Hyun Jin Ryu, and Kenta Maeda were prolific at the sac bunt. Why bunt? Why no bunts? These are the questions that will be answered in this episode. With the help the of Run Expectancy Matrix, we'll see why it makes sense to sacrifice bunt with pitchers hitting, but not with position players hitting. We'll talk about the Universal Designated Hitter and whether it would end the practice of bunting entirely. Spoiler alert: you may still see bunts even with the Universal DH.
Another topic I'll tackle is bunt singles. Bunting for a hit still seems to be viable, although you need the right skillset to make it happen. Finally, we'll wrap things up by exploring the strategy of the MLB extra innings rules. These rules are not traditional, but they do make it viable to bunt in extra innings. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this Foolish Baseball production
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Cool merch man
I have one question about the merch: is there any calculator watches, my old one broke
@@supervision4137 We're working on it
Why is jomboymedia in the link 😂
@@A.B.421 I'm using their store to sell the merch. I'm still independent as a content creator, but they have the infrastructure to make selling merch super easy for me.
2019: Runs are for suckers
2021: Outs are for suckers
Moral of the story? Clayton Kershaw is no sucker.
Underrated comment
Did you actually watch the video and not notice the glaring minute long error... Baseball Historian: Hint wamco
Kersh confirmed goated
@@adammumby8883 I noticed it, but -AM-O were top 3 in the AL, and not top 3 in all of baseball. I assume he meant the second, not the first.
@@jbrains I must have missed it, but the LAD are not in the AL, is that what you mean? Genuinely curious.
Man, Babe Ruth laying down bunts really makes me want to go back in time and fight Miller Huggins
He wasn't a big dude. You could probably take him.
@@FoolishBaseball In a fight right⁉️⁉️⁉️
Can we fight Elmer Miller and Whitey Whitt while we’re back there?
Uppercut that old man right out his shoes.
Is no one going to point out that this dude is literally a Josh?
Foolish Baseball could make me watch a video about the percentage of hot dog vendors that catch foul balls
Shhh, don't leak my next project.
I have no idea where one would find those metrics, but I'd like and subscribe for that video for sure. Id even hit the little magic bell i reckin.
@@FoolishBaseball Don't tease me like that
That has to have happened at least once
That would actually be pretty interesting
Hey, when the Braves hire you to lead their analytics department, just remember us common folk.
I think I'm gonna skip that and go straight to being emperor of MLB.
@@FoolishBaseball *world baseball
@@FoolishBaseball The logical next step, of course.
Yeah but *world baseball is pretty much what we have now plus the Netherlands
@@ProvisionalPatrioticAlliance *Caribbean Netherlands
2:55 "look at the triple slash of pitchers. It's appalling"
Me, a mariners fan sweating cause half of our lineup is hitting that bad.
the tigers fan club can empathize, its not pleasant
Only youtuber that makes watching a 15 minute video on bunting fun
Well to be fair, I might be the only one that has tried.
@@FoolishBaseball jolly olive made a video on Cedric Mullins bunting but it wasn’t 15 minutes. Love the videos
@@jed.a.cordes53 Oh yeah, I actually watched that!
Good to see that O's fans still exist. It's been a rough past few years and probably still at least a couple more to go but i still do and always will love the O's. Can't wait to see them making runs at the AL East again. Go O's!!!
@@unkledoda420 (coming from a Phillies fan) I like the O’s and I like going to oriole games as well because I just love their stadium
Hedges and Betts joke is a masterpiece😂
I just want a Zack Greinke episode so I can see a pixilated Greinke mowing lawns.
You sure it never happened yet?
@@Feanor026 Yup. There are videos about Greinke, but not on FB.
@@martinhoude3518 people are joking when some umpires or players are lucky because they will be in a Jomboy video, but if I was playing in MLB I would much rather have my face pixilated while FB talks about how often I hit a double with 1 out on a 3-1 count in a tied game in the 8th inning xD
@@Feanor026 Same
@@Feanor026 I'm not only talking about Jomboy. "Baseball Doesn't Exist" has a couple of nice videos on him as well (content farm Made The Cut has videos too).
To your last question: are sac bunts fun to watch? Yes. Its a ball in play that makes the defense work, and is an opportunity for excitement.
This is why I love Japanese baseball. It's not flashy but when you see fundamentals performed so flawlessly there's a satisfaction in that.
I will say this. Clayton Kershaw is the best bunter I’ve ever seen.
I’ll also say this about the bunt... LEARN TO DO IT IF THEY HAVE THE SHIFT ON YOU. Nearly every player has the entire left side open and nobody ever drops one down the third base side for a guaranteed single.
Okay, my rant is over. Time to watch Bailey’s banger.
Just another thing to add to a hall of fame career
100% agree. Matt carpenter bunted into the shift a few years ago and got a double out of it
Kershaw's been laying down bunts for a looooong time now.
Cavan Biggio better do this more ASAP. Also fuck Curt Schilling. "Bailey is a huge fan, he told me so"
My dude, baseball is not managed by sense anymore. All decisions are made by an AI in everyone's front office that doesn't know what the fck it's doing.
“It makes sense for pitchers not named Ohtani to bunt” Huascar Ynoa would like to have a word with you
Huascar Ynoa isn't a pitcher, he's an athlete.
Foolish Baseball he’s Brad Penny like
@@FoolishBaseball What about Zack Greinke?
@@FoolishBaseball He's the Designated Huascar!!
Degrom too
A Foolish Baseball Video comes out right when I grab my waffles this is the greatest day ever…
Now that is very epic
I'm just gonna come out and say it. Waffles > Pancakes.
@@FoolishBaseball very true statement.
@@FoolishBaseball No
@@FoolishBaseball pancakes>>>
My little league coach told me, "Bunting is easy, think of the bat like your glove and catch the ball." This made me a great bunter.
Then I heard Barry Bonds say, "Hitting homers is easy, just think of your bat like a glove and catch the pitch." I haven't become a homer run king but I know bunting won't die because you can bunt for homers.
with or without the drugs????
It is possible but not humanly nor materially possible. The ball would have to be thrown 2-3x faster than Chapman, the bat/ball would have to tolerate the velocity/impact, the bunt would have to pop up the ball and a decent wind speed to help carry the ball. I give it a .000001% chance of ever happening
@@TheRealNameless1 I think he meant inside the park/lil league error homer
@@Gtasplayer I think he was rather making a joke
One day, someone will bunt an inside-the-park homer and the universe will collapse.
"NO, you can't just intentionally get out with a sac bunt"
"Haha bunt go *boink* "
Hot take: I really hate the new extra innings rule. I sat through an 18 inning Giants game a couple of years ago and love-hated every second of it.
The one we didn't want, but the one we needed.
As always.
Me on any given day: “meh bunting is boring”
Me after a 14 minute Baseball Bits on bunting: “holy poop bunting is the Way, the Truth, and the Life! The past, present, and future of baseball!”
Thank you for another gem Foolish
So many times I’m watching a team with runners on first and second with nobody out while I scream at my TV to lay down a sac bunt. Of course that guy at the plate strikes out and the next batter grounds into a DP and the inning is over...
yep, but the nerds say this is the way
Dumb idea unless you’re trying to score only one run
@@blacksheepsoftball You prevent a double play and put an extra runner into position. I’m not expecting Barry Bonds to bunt. Giving up one out to give yourself two chances at 2 runs while avoiding a double play ball is far more preferable to what baseball has turned into. All or nothing. The strikeout rate is way too high. A productive out is always better than a strikeout
But it’s not always the ideal batter to have attempt a bunt.
The spreadsheets say no. The viewer count says yes. It's ironic the ways baseball has changed to get more wins seem to lower fan counts. It's why I love older games, especially ones with my GOAT Ricky Henderson. So much excitement. Sure it's suboptimal, but it's America's pastime, not a min/max video game run. Stats are fun for fans to go over, but they should not run the game. I can play out of the park baseball for that(and to try and beat the dominant beanball record Kofee and John set up).
The tweets updating the video timeline really helped get hyped and the vid didn’t disappoint.
Glad you enjoyed!
1993 American League Batting Average leaders:
John Olerud, TOR - .363
Paul Molitor, TOR - .332
Roberto Alomar, TOR - .326
But that’s the only time I can remember a trio of teammates finishing 1-2-3 in any stat.
This is very pedantic, but while they led the American League, they did not lead MLB 1-2-3. That's the difference. It's still an insane accomplishment.
@@FoolishBaseball True. I was going to replay the video to see if that’s what you referred to. I just remember that stat as a quirk because it’s so cool and was a huge reason why the Jays were so good that year. Keep up the great work - I love your videos!
And of course with that hitting trio they won the World Series, the last Canadian team to win any Big Four title until the Raptors over a quarter century later
Damn I was about to touch some grass, then you uploaded
you were so close to greatness
@@FoolishBaseball tell that to my spin rate
Is that smoking a marijuana?
@@jacobcrater4574 it’s a reference to the video
Coming from a Brit, I love a bunt. I'm a big cricket fan, and I love cheeky singles and defensive shots, so bunt loving came naturally
Cricket is very interesting to me. Would love to get into it.
I’m sorry for you that you’re british but happy for you that you’re enjoying baseball
A few years back there was a cricket league that would play at the park down the street from my house. This is in Baltimore, Maryland, so an odd sight to say the least. I spent Saturdays for a whole summer watching them play yet I'm still not really clear on all the rules. Looks like fun though.
I'd love to see cricket but it basically registers as a zero in Canada for the sports networks. There's a city near Toronto that has a large South Asian community, so there is actually a high school cricket league.
Let's just say cricket is like an upgraded version of baseball.
Great video, but I'm pretty sad that you didn't even mention when coach Hank Hill used a series of bunts to ensure his team, The Zephyrs, took the early lead against The Ace of Diamonds and his Jewels in an exhibition softball match in 2006.
Coach Hill noticed that nobody was covering third base, as Ace's team actually only had three players. Hill had his team lay down bunts up third base line until they had a first-inning run.
Unfortunately, The Zephyr's undefeated season was ended by Ace's team that night, with a final score of 63-1.
As a Dodger fan, the Hedges and Betts wordplay sparked joy
The 1993 Phillies had a lineup when Incaviglia started in Left Field that had seven of the eight batters in front of the pitcher with an OPS over .800 (When Mariano Duncan played 2nd over Mickey Morandini that added an eighth batter with a .721 OPS) That gave those pitchers a lot of opportunities to move base runners along and Nails with his well balanced breakfast waiting at the top of the order to keep the hit parade going.
You bring up the 1993 Phillies? Remember those 1993 Blue Jays? Well they had the top three in AL batting average. Fake baseball news in this video.
@@adammumby8883 Nothing but respect for that team. I was thinking about the Phillies lineup versus the Blue Jays lineup and the Phillies had a bunch of players having their career years at the same time. The Blue Jays on the other hand had players who can put up numbers consistently year after year. And then they get Rickey Henderson at the trade deadline and history has immortalized how important he was in the ninth inning of game 6. Molitor and Olerud were hitting machines and Alomar was a great second baseman. (They were the three leading the league in batting average I assume.) And Joe Carter should be in the Hall of Fame. I know the numbers are “Hall of Very Good” quality but hitting a World Series winning home run I think is enough to put him over the top. If Mazeroski is a hall of famer then Carter should’ve been a lock.
@@freeparking301 they were the three and I have great memories of your 93 Phillies team, Lenny Dykstra was almost a one man team in that WS. But the glaring hole got me searching the comments.
@@adammumby8883 I remember that season well. I was 12 and obsessed. To be fair to foolish baseball, they said top 3 in baseball, not in one league, so technically the Jays weren’t that.
@@freeparking301 jays fan here. Carter’s moment is obviously one of my favourite baseball moments of all time (he also caught the final out in the 1992 WS) but he just isn’t actually a hall of famer; not even close, stats/career-wise. Lots of players (Vandermeer, Maris, Larson, etc) accomplished really cool feats, some in the WS, and aren’t in the hall of fame. That 1993 Jays team had 4 future hall of famers on it as it was, which is pretty cool. I could talk about former players who aren’t in the hall of fame who deserve to be (and guys like Delgado, McGriff, Stieb, Cone and Parker all makes the list as guys who played for the Jays, but Carter just isn’t one of them. wRC+ of 102, and 17 career WAR just isn’t even close.
Foolish is already in mid-season form. Fantastic execution right here, take notes
Five dollars for saving sac bunts or Foolish Baseball patreon is a emotional choice I wasn’t prepared to make
You can only do one.
Not the bunt. Analytics say we should abolish fielders and move to a most home runs hit scoring model only, as all non HR non K at bats are inefficient.
"The squeeze play, in the year of our lord...." Literally LOL. Thank you!
This channel is one of the main reasons I started watching baseball. Thanks Bailey!
The extra inning rule really grinds my gears, and I'm someone open to change to baseball
I'm open to changes but that one is a bit much for me. Not a fan of the 7 inning double headers either. There's a minor league that's doing a homerun derby instead of extra innings, fucking stupid.
Baseball: you know what’s fun. Stupid gimmicks. Look at the shootout in the NHL. That totally hasn’t outstayed its shelf life and is now an irritating novelty that feels forced and contrived. Clearly gimmicks are the way of the future
The MLB: we don’t solve problems until we are legally forced to
@@unkledoda420 the 7 inning double header is just humane. NOBODY wants to sit down and watch at minimum 18 innings of baseball, let alone play 18 innings in one day. That's like 6-7 hours of your day on the same two teams. And if either game goes into extra innings it's even longer and more tiring for the players and the people watching.
@@Jame5man shootouts in hockey and soccer are there because there is so much time not scoring, adding more time or periods of time where the players are already tired out doesn't do anything but drag out the game even longer and make it boring. At least shootouts are tense and interesting and they make a definitive winner rather than the NFL allowing ties after their overtime is up.
Shootout-like things don't really work for baseball or football though
@@stardustspark5682 i guess we've just been torturing people for the past 150+ years huh? I haven't heard players complain too much about having to play an occasional double header. They get paid damn good money to play a game for a living so even if they did complain oh well. 6-7 hours is still less than i spend at my job everyday and nothing about my job would ever be described as a game or fun or something I've dreamed and worked half my life towards getting to get paid to do. As for the fans, no one's forcing anyone to watch anything. If the game's dragging on to much for ya you can always, I don't know, change the channel. The fans at the games typically don't get to attend both games, just the one they initially had a ticket for so they're actually getting shorted a bit. And finally the employees at the stadium. 6-7 hours of gameplay plus a couple hours pre and post game for prep and cleanup isn't much more than an 8 hour work day. Lots of people have jobs that are a hell of a lot worse that involve mandatory overtime. Plus the fact that many people who work at stadiums go out of their way to get those jobs because they enjoy being around baseball.
I used to go to Dodger spring training practices and Maury Wills would teach bunting drills in the backfields to EVERY dodger. It was the coolest thing to watch, players loved learning from the goat of bunt singles.
That 2019 Dodgers team was so much fun. Led the league in walkoffs and had the best sac bunting pitchers apparently LOL.
Can you make a baseball bit about the 2014-2015 Royals? Love the content by the way
Maybe. Maybe not.
he did lol
I cried when Hyun_Jin Ryu and Kenta Maeda left the Dodgers. Not because I'll miss them, but because they went to AL teams where they'll get very few chances to show off their bunting skills.
They get very few chances anyway. They only bat a few times a week and a sac bunt requires there to be runners on base in front of the pitcher, which is not always the case.
I for one am a huge fan of 15 minute long videos of Ichiro Suzuki laying down perfect bunts.
The quality of these videos is getting so much better! Good job FB!
With the reveal of the NL DH, this will forever be the best pitcher sac bunt year ever. God bless the Troubling Trio of Bunts.
Tired: Bunts are free outs. Never bunt.
Wired: bunt go boink
Funny, interesting, well-made and relevant....this channel is such a freaking gem. Great job, man. Your videos are excellent.
I have not watched baseball since high school (longer ago than I will admit) but I love each of these vids. Such a great presentation. Humor, stats and sports. Awesome format.
You mentioned the dodgers great player development , you should do a video about the dodgers having the most rookies of the year of every team!
I still remember when they had like 6 in a row back in the 90's. Karros, Piazza, Mondesi, Nomo, Kent, and Hollandsworth, i think i got that right.
Yeah i don't know what i was thinking there. I got that completely wrong. He never won ROY and wasn't with the Dodgers til much later in his career. His rookie year was like '92 or '93 with the Mets. Massive brain fart.
@@unkledoda420 Kent was my favorite as a kid, but yea I remember he was older
The Hedges/Betts wordplay was amazing. Well done, FB 👏
Another baseball bits I’m so hyped I’ve watched all of the others over the past couple days
I was literally just wondering when the next baseball bits was going to come out
It's gonna come out 46 minutes ago.
I haven't watched this yes but damn I need my Foolish Baseball Smallball fix
Foolish Smallball
I see this legend is still posting compelling baseball content. Nice going, Foolish. This was great.
Incidentally, this was easily your most entertaining video, FB...laughed the whole way through. :D
Wow I just watched a video on bunting, and I regret nothing
I can sum up bunting with one wise quote. "Situations are situational" #FTB
That show stinks.
This weekend just got a whole lot better with a new foolish baseball upload. Life is good.
I think I love you in the most bromance way possible. Your videos are a real highlight of my life.
Let ol Kennesaw Mountain Landis come back if you're using a time machine.
Is it possible for bad bunters to perfect the swinging bunt, which may, in my opinion, cause more confusion and panic than the actual bunt?
I always love to watch your vids thanks for making the start to the weekend more enjoyable
By the way the one of the first videos on my channel is a Bartolo Colon one. I made a lot of gaming vids in between, I’m a kid what can I say
Great video as always, FB!
Bunting against the shift is aesthetically pleasing.
"if that doesn't make you want to invent time travel to go back and fight Miller Huggins, I don't know what will."
Let me just say I have my own reasons to invent time travel to go back and fight Miller Huggins and he'd know damn well what they were if he were still alive!
Why do people want to fight him?
great video bailey! It will be interesting to reflect on this video in the future when baseball could be very different, this could be a season of lasts.
Ive read multiple baseball analytics books, and unrelated love games of my youth. Now im finding a channel that combines them? Amazing.
Last time I was this early, everyone was celebrating how great it was that the Astros won in 17
Last time I was this early, everyone was wondering why the White Sox were so bad in the 1919 World Series.
honestly, the longer and louder the yankee$ and their fans cry about it, the more I stop caring that the Astros cheated
@@theunwelcome Imagine hating a team so much you ignore the arguably the biggest scandal since the Black Sox
"Cause Pitchers are Bad at Hitting"
Shohei is fuming rn
Even otani has been asked to lay a bunt in his high school days, if kuriyama his manager asked him to do so for nippon ham, he would obediently obey
This is the best channel on TH-cam. Your video about bunting is better than anyone's video about monster home runs, or outfielders throwing ropes to cut down runners at home.
I just love this channel!!!
And the merch looks tight 👏
Bet Shohei Ohtani wishes he could bunt this well
In Japan they have a bunt derby kinda like the home run derby. They like bunt to a target. I bet ohtani can drop some decent bunts
Literally all the videos he puts out are bangers
it’s only May and Foolish is already rolling. Gonna be a fun year
A NEW BASEBALL BITS VIDEO ALWAYS MAKES FOR A GREAT DAY
Foolish Baseball used a clip with... PETER LAMBERT?! in a BASEBALL BITS VIDEO NONETHELESS?! GOAT
1:34-1:57 is perhaps my favorite youtube moment of all time
I love your content and how you use analytics to make these videos
Hooray! It's always a good day when a new Foolish Baseball video is published!
Your channel has gotten me back into baseball
Shoot there's nothing I love more than a good bunt..and a great video about bunts. Frankly, if you don't love bunts, you ain't a baseball fan
Always love to see a new Baseball Bits!
Me too
Foolish Baseball has the best replies in the comments
You were right in your post on Patreon when you said no one asked for this. But you know what? I’m glad we got it
I like bunting. as a player,there’s nothing more lovable than a teammate who would willing give up there ab to advance the runners. I would also like to see lefty pull hitters to learn to bunt as well. The shifts in today’s game are so extreme that as long as it’s down the base line you don’t even need speed, and on top of that you would open up the right side afterwards. Also squeeze and suicide bunts are sexy.
Fantastic as always!
Great work, Baily. I think this might be your best script.
Just found your channel.
Great vid. Thanks.
I know the highlight reel is supposed to be tongue in cheek but I fuckin loved it. It’s like when they show highlight reels of offensive linemen blocking , love it
Honestly I would say bunts are pretty interesting, more interesting than most plays. The ball can go almost any where and the infield has more errors than almost any other play. Anything can go wrong, and it's usually interesting when they do. Mean while a fly to out field is usually pretty tame. Either they are close enough to catch it, or not. If not caught it's almost impossible to beat the run to a base from out field.
love your videos, got me to watch baseball again :)
This is a ridiculously amazing video.
Man a video of Foolish Baseball to start the day and merch I can't buy! Greatness
Absolutely, positively, without a doubt, the best baseball channel on TH-cam
I don’t even watch baseball I just watch your videos because it’s entertaining. . . And I watched a 14 minute video about bunting.
this is a great video, bravo!
I Like, subscribe, share, become a patron... Still feels like I fall short for ya Bailey! Stellar work again on a otherwise untalked about topic!!
Good Rays content in this one, thank you Foolish Baseball
This literally couldn’t have been a better title to read. I love you.
Great video!
You really outdid yourself this time. Best episode yet.
The hedges your betts pun was pretty awesome and I feel the need to let you know that lol
You are wild for that 'Hedges and Betts' pun.
The first game I saw in person with the tiebreak runner rule was women's softball, where the game was 7 innings and the tiebreak started in the 10th. Visiting team's runner was out at the plate, nothing across. Home team sacrificed the runner to third; two intentional walks followed (R1 stole second on ball one). Next batter knocked home the run.
Good stuff as always big dag
I have been watching your videos for a little bit now and enjoy them but wasn't subscribed but when you did the sorry this is my 30 for 30 voice was an instant subscribe lol thanks keep it up
Didn't know Schill was even a bunt guy. Thanks for the info. And thanks for the brilliant video work!
Aussie here, I don't get to watch much baseball and some rules just go WAY over my head.. But I love your eye for stats and think your videos are great! Keep up the good work mate