Vladimir Guerrero

Seven years ago, in a post I called “Dear Mike, You should walk Barry Bonds when...”, I put out an easy to read chart as to when to walk Barry Bonds. With the Giants on the road, in the ninth inning, 2 outs, and bases empty, Giants down by 1 run, I said: FACE HIM.  That is, you do NOT walk the tieing run on base.  I had plenty of situations where I give a “go with gut”, meaning I give the manager an allowance as to perhaps he knows more than...