Just like Dipoto is trying to do with the roster this offseason...
True, it definitely lowers your ceiling, but it also greatly raises your floor.
Maybe this is more important in the college game, but I watched The Oregon State Beavers bunt their way to TWO national championships, while the other guys waited and waited and waited for those walks and three run homers that never came.
The beavs would just single run inning you to death while you put up zero's waiting for the big home run to come.
It was always gratifying to hear the announcers sulk over the beavers bunting a man to second them bringing him home with a single and complain about only getting one run in the inning, and then the next half inning the enemy team gets a guy or two on and the next batter either strikes out or grounds into a double play over swing for that extra base hit... but that was the "right way to play"
And no one EVER brings up the pressure a bunt puts on the defense, even in the majors we see 3b or P or C or 1B throw away easy bunts... Because they are nerve wracking!
Oh well, it's an argument Pat Casey and I will never win, but I am sure he consoles himself just fine by nodding, agreeing that he is wrong and then looking at his multiple Pac-12 and National championships ;) I guess that will do for me as well.