"Bunting late in a game solely to break up a no-hit bid is one I think should draw some ire."   I might agree with this if your team is up by 15 with 2 outs in the 9th...Maybe.   Otherwise, absolutely not.   Why should a team care about the opposing pitcher's no hitter aside from trying not to be the team he no hits?   What value is a no hitter if the opposing team doesn't use every way at their disposal to get a hit?  I've been a fan of baseball for 50 years.   I didn't grow up with this kind of BS.

"Bunting late in a game solely to break up a no-hit bid is one I think should draw some ire."   I might agree with this if your team is up by 15 with 2 outs in the 9th...Maybe.   Otherwise, absolutely not.   Why should a team care about the opposing pitcher's no hitter aside from trying not to be the team he no hits?   What value is a no hitter if the opposing team doesn't use every way at their disposal to get a hit?  I've been a fan of baseball for 50 years.   I didn't grow up with this kind of BS.

I'm not hard and fast on that one, but I do think it's kind of crappy to say we've been dominated for 7 or 8 innings, I'm going to try and bunt since I can't hit. It sounds dumb typing that out though, so maybe more strictly against the shift.

Or well, just #NeverBunt 

How you gonna expect a young dude like Tatis jr. to throttle it back? Man hes gonna mash it all he can. If you don't like it then don't fall behind by umpteen runs and expect everybody to give you a chance to toss your damn #15 reliever in there. I've seen the Rangers AND the Royals a lot in spring training(they share the complex in Surprise, Az) and there are no two bigger whining teams in the MLB. Maybe it's time Nolan Ryan calls Woodward into his office and tells him to STFU.

Do teams only look at stats put up in close games to decide contracts? I'm pretty sure Tatis gets paid to hit dingers. The more he hits the more he gets paid. To channel Sprewell, Tatis has got a family to feed. Just because Texas is so bad he has to lose money on his next contract? Makes no sense...

Good for Tatis. Sometimes baseball players are real babies. It is a game, after all.

A good bunt IS a hit. It is a great hit. It is a smart hit. No mater when or in any circumstance. 

I'm not hard and fast on that one, but I do think it's kind of crappy to say we've been dominated for 7 or 8 innings, I'm going to try and bunt since I can't hit. It sounds dumb typing that out though, so maybe more strictly against the shift.

 

Or well, just #NeverBunt 

I love it - why do you want your team to be no-hit.  Bunting is part of the game as we have already seen with the Twins this year.  If they can't field it, that is on the other team.

Can someone please write down all these imaginary rules so we can stop saying unwritten rules and expose them to the sunlight where they might whither like the vampires they are as they suck the life out of the games. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/22/baseball-unwritten-rules-fernando-tatis-jr/ 

Missing the point. He had the take sign. The entire issue is that he had the take sign. He didn’t “miss” the take sign...he ignored it. His manager was bailing him out by saying that he missed it. Sounds much better than going public with the fact that the rookie ignored the sign and just did what he felt like doing instead.

Should the opposing manager be whining about it? Not in my opinion. 7 run lead...but Texas did have two at-bats remaining. But, it’s not cool IMO, either.

*the rules change with the generations....Im sure Babe Ruth got thrown at...now if you hit somebody OMG. If you hit Ty Cobb you knew your 2b or Ss was gonna pay somehow. Thats why they say let the game police itself. Now everything is on youtube