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4 minutes ago, Frobby said:

It's nice having both so we can pinch hit for one and still have a good defensive OF in reserve.   I do like Gentry better overall.  

I'd argue that neither is a good defensive OF, they are decent defensive OFs, that just look good compared to Trumbo, Mancini, and Smith.

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10 hours ago, weams said:

 

By the way, Gentry got hurt bunting. 

 

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Wade Miley got hurt pitching 4 months ago, with 2 line drives right back to the mound hitting him in the same inning.

He's still pitching, in spite of that experience.

If getting injured while trying to perform a routine procedure was necessarily a good reason to stop doing it, nobody would be playing baseball anymore.

 

You could make arguments as to whether or not bunting in general is in the overall best interest of the team, but somebody getting injured while doing it would not be part of either side of those arguments.

 

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Chris Davis could be a .400 hitter if he'd just take the bunt offered to him every single at bat.

 

Instead he would rather be a big nothingburger except for the rare occasion he actually runs into one every week or so.

He'd rather move himself up the home run leaderboard than avoid because the answer to this trivia question:

Which player in major league history who signed a 100 million + deal had the worst total WAR in the history of the game.

There is zero chance this doesn't end up being Chris Davis if he doesn't change his approach because he is a total nightmare at the plate and he seems like he couldnt care less.

Anyone who actually gave a crap would stop striking out twice a game and instead get on base, especially during a playoff stretch run.

By year 6 he's gonna become the most loathed Orioles in history.

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1 minute ago, Norfolk orioles said:

I think he is bunting against a wide open side of the field.

 

Just push it out there and it's a base hit.

 

even 4/10 and he's going to force defenses to change.

I don't think Davis can bunt ML pitching and get base hits 4 out of 10 times.

Keep in mind he isn't fast down the line (earlier this year he was one of the slowest).

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5 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I don't think Davis can bunt ML pitching and get base hits 4 out of 10 times.

Keep in mind he isn't fast down the line (earlier this year he was one of the slowest).

I just think he could pick some spots here and there to try it.  

He did it one time in a one run game in the 9th which made no sense. 

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38 minutes ago, Norfolk orioles said:

Chris Davis could be a .400 hitter if he'd just take the bunt offered to him every single at bat.

 

Instead he would rather be a big nothingburger except for the rare occasion he actually runs into one every week or so.

He'd rather move himself up the home run leaderboard than avoid because the answer to this trivia question:

Which player in major league history who signed a 100 million + deal had the worst total WAR in the history of the game.

There is zero chance this doesn't end up being Chris Davis if he doesn't change his approach because he is a total nightmare at the plate and he seems like he couldnt care less.

Anyone who actually gave a crap would stop striking out twice a game and instead get on base, especially during a playoff stretch run.

By year 6 he's gonna become the most loathed Orioles in history.

I hear you but he doesn't even have to bunt. He could simply look to hit the ball the other way like he did in 2013. All that space due to the shift and yet, he usually tries to pull everything or stares at pitches down the middle. I'm rooting for him like all O's, but don't expect much in the change of his approach.

In a interview with masn about a month ago, he essentially said he was unlucky this season.

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