As a Stephen Vogt fan, I want to make an appeal for him to distinguish his tenure from Terry Francona’s in one simple yet significant move: tell Andres Gimenez to stop sacrifice bunting.
I want to begin by stating that, generally speaking, I have no qualm with players bunting for the purpose of getting on base. Getting on base is always the goal, by any legal means necessary.
With that said, over the past three seasons, there are six qualified hitters with more than 7 sacrifice bunts. Here are their number of sac bunts and overall hitting numbers:
Geraldo Perdomo - 26 sac bunts, 79 wRC+
Trent Grisham - 11 sac bunts, 86 wRC+
Andres Gimenez - 9 sac bunts, 118 wRC+
Ha-Seong Kim - 9 sac bunts, 108 wRC+
Adam Frazier - 8 sac bunts, 84 wRC+
Myles Straw - 8 sac bunts, 68 wRC+
I hope you can already see the outlier on this list.