Is there any excuse for an MLB player not being able to bunt?
“Excuse? No,” Grant said. “Can I give you some reasons? I’ll give you some reasons. …
“I don’t think that many organizations have spent the last 10 years focusing in the minor leagues on. ‘Let’s really get bunts down. Let’s use the bunt as a weapon.’ And so these players have spent their entire minor league development time not really focused on that. And so now they’re having to develop this new tool at the big league level. I think it goes back to how the game has — I don’t want to say evolved because I think it’s gone backwards — but I think it goes back to the idea that teams just didn’t value the bunt, so they didn’t teach it. And now it needs to be part of offenses. You’ve got to put the ball in play.”
“The era of the idea that (a) strikeout is just another out, I think is gone,” Grant said. “You’ve got to use outs to create production.”
