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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
dola,
As suspected, this was a dead-ball era carryover thing. Joe DiMaggio had a grand total of 14 sacrifices his entire career and none at all after 1946. Ernie Banks started to use the bunt to move runners up late in his career, but before his age-36 season he had a grand total of 16. Ted Williams had 5 in his career, one more than Albert Belle in a lot more at-bats. Frank Robinson hit 17, 13 of those when he was 20 and 21 years of age. After guys like Huggins retired, nobody was using their sluggers to sacrifice.
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ONE sacrifice by a slugger at any age is more than any slugger these days would do. The sluggers today are strictly there to put the ball over the fence. Any idea of using them for strategy or defense is a lost cause.