i don't care if bad hitters bunt. i hate hate hate giving away outs with good hitters. When one run is disproportionately important, it's not that simple. seems to me the odds of scoring one run don't increase that much with 1 out and a runner on 2nd vs 0 out and runner on first anyway, without even taking into account that you're talking about wasting a good hitter http://www.tangotiger.net/re24.html edit - sorry, massively hungover, but they actually don't increase at all