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It's Time To Bench Chris Davis

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schittenden Hangout Grand Counsel

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People could argue, fairly, that bunting isn't exactly easy, and he might simply be handing the opposition outs by either putting himself behind in counts or bunting straight back to the pitcher. That said, there's no excuse for not trying to play pepper with the third base line. Every attempt to pull the ball right now is a failure on his part, IMO. The shift isn't beating him given his (awful) approach. He's beating himself.

I was at the game in Aberdeen on Sunday. I have to say, I saw a surprising number of very effective sacrifice bunts in that game. They made it look so easy. Most were executed by the Spinners (a team apparently made up of tiny women?), as the Ironbirds did their best Orioles impression with no hits for the first half of the game and both runs they scored coming on solo home runs.

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MrOrange82 Hangout Grand Counsel

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I wonder if can't see the ball or if he is still bothered by his injury?

He's made some pretty athletic plays in the field this season. It might have started as the lingering effects of an injury, but I think it's a combination of mechanical and mental issues at this point.

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Can_of_corn Hangout Grand Counsel

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I was at the game in Aberdeen on Sunday. I have to say, I saw a surprising number of very effective sacrifice bunts in that game. They made it look so easy. Most were executed by the Spinners (a team apparently made up of tiny women?), as the Ironbirds did their best Orioles impression with no hits for the first half of the game and both runs they scored coming on solo home runs.

By effective do you mean they kept the Spinners from scoring more then once an inning?

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El Gordo Hangout Grand Counsel

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Idk but it's going to be hard to not give the guy a chance to bounce back, when they know what he's capable of. Maybe if they had someone waiting in the wings or some fantastic free agent...
He's had all season to bounce back. Why would he Be any more likely to do so next year? I'd trade him for whatever I can get like they did with JJ, and save the 10M. we'd be better of spending it on Miller.
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By effective do you mean they kept the Spinners from scoring more then once an inning?

I mean they were executed effectively... the ability to do so, being a different question from whether doing so is the correct strategy. In any event, I believe a sacrifice helped them score 2 runs in the first and the winning run in the 10th. It's hard to say whether they would have scored more if they hadn't sacrificed. If I recall correctly, the Ironbirds did advance a runner on a sacrifice in the bottom of the 10th and then had a ground out and a long fly out to end the game.

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By effective do you mean they kept the Spinners from scoring more then once an inning?

Nah, it's the foreign concept of productive outs and the wildly insane notion of moving base runners into scoring position for the guys that can actually get clutch hits.

*sarcasm, fun for the whole family!*

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AdamK Major Leaguer Rising Star

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The time to bench Davis was a few weeks before the ASB.

Then the time was in the games leading up the break.

Or maybe around 3rd week of July.

NOW is not the time. NOW is the time you get weird with it and see just how weird it can get. It may get so weird he is the postseason MVP.

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Nah, it's the foreign concept of productive outs and the wildly insane notion of moving base runners into scoring position for the guys that can actually get clutch hits.

*sarcasm, fun for the whole family!*

I think we are all learning now that in the post PED era, one run is worth a lot more than it used to. Not a whole lot of 6-5 games being played these days. If you can manufacture 2 runs that might be enough.

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