{"id":6506,"date":"2014-02-24T15:08:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T20:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2014-02-24T15:08:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T20:08:03","slug":"ron-washington-defends-his-use-of-the-bunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/24\/ron-washington-defends-his-use-of-the-bunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Washington defends his use of the bunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some believe that Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington bunts too often.<\/p>\n

When one reporter gave his thoughts on bunting to Washington it generated a colorful response from the Rangers manager of seven seasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if they try to do that, they\u2019re going to be telling me how to [bleep] manage,\u201d Washington said. \u201cThat\u2019s the way I answer that [bleep] question. They can take the analytics on that and shove it up their [bleep][bleep].\u201d<\/p>\n

He did not stop there according to the Star Telegram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMike Scioscia dropped 56 sacrifice bunts on his club, the most in the league, and he\u2019s a genius,\u201d Washington continued. \u201cBut Ron Washington dropped 53 and he\u2019s bunting too much? You can take that analytics and shove it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do it when I feel it\u2019s necessary, not when the analytics feel it\u2019s necessary, not when you guys feel it\u2019s necessary, and not when somebody else feels it\u2019s necessary. It\u2019s when Ron Washington feels it\u2019s necessary. Bottom line.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Rangers have won 90-plus games in each of the last four seasons. It’s worth nothing that Washington actually dropped 63 bunts last season while Scisocia employed 54.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some believe that Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington bunts too often. When one reporter gave his thoughts on bunting to Washington it generated a colorful response from the Rangers manager of seven seasons. \u201cI think if they try to do that, they\u2019re going to be telling me how to [bleep] manage,\u201d Washington said. \u201cThat\u2019s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,655,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-ron-washington","11":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6506"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}