Rangers manager Chris Woodward looks back fondly on his time with the BlueJays, GM Ross Atkins breaks down his club's bunt mentality and Eric Sogard sheds light on his hot start. That and more in ShiDavidi's latest Blue Jays Notebook:
The Blue Jays have made sacrifice bunting a regular part of their work in the batting cage to be prepared for any number of different scenarios, such as the one that presented itself in the 12th inning of Friday night’s 1-0 win over the Rangers.had all of three sacrifice bunts in his professional baseball career when Charlie Montoyo asked him to square up after the first two batters of the inning reached.
Data from run-expectancy models consistently show that surrendering an out for 90 feet rarely makes sense. For example in 2018, as calculated by Baseball Prospectus, teams scored 1.4525 runs with men on first and second and none out, as compared to 1.3067 with men on second and third with one out. “So much is dependent on pitcher/hitter matchup, who is coming up behind,” says GM Ross Atkins. “I think there are a lot of scenarios where it doesn’t make sense. But if you’re using track records and using the information to make the decision, not in isolation of sacrifice bunt or not, but using all of the pieces to the equation … who’s available to pitch in the next inning, there is so much more to it than just deciding to sacrifice bunt or not, as a philosophy.
“It’s fun, man,” Jansen says of playing more small-ball. “We’re a gritty team, we’re going to fight ‘til the last out. So, anyway we can find a way to win, we’re going to do it.”Eric Sogard has long taken the field in a pair of bookish prescription glasses stylish enough for a trendy office, eschewing contact lenses or the kind of sport-oriented wraparound frames Danny Jansen wears.
“I love seeing a lot of pitches and working the counts, the more pitches I see the more comfortable I get, so that’s something that’s been putting me in a good position,” says Sogard.
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