{"id":1050,"date":"2008-05-05T10:19:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T15:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spikesnstars.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2008-05-05T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T15:19:03","slug":"cooper-unconcerned-about-obp-uncertain-about-bourn-bunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/2008\/05\/05\/cooper-unconcerned-about-obp-uncertain-about-bourn-bunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper unconcerned about OBP, uncertain about Bourn bunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astros have 81 walks, the fewest in the league, and the team on-base percentage of .306 ranks 29th in baseball.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cooper isn&#8217;t concerned about the low walks totals and on-base percentage. This is a team that swings the bats; as long as they aren&#8217;t striking out too often, the Astros can live with fewer walks.<br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s not my concern as much as continuing to fight and not have three-pitch at-bats, two-pitch at-bats, unless you&#8217;re getting something good to hit,&#8221; Cooper said.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/houston.astros.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20080504&amp;content_id=2640418&amp;vkey=news_hou&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=hou\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bourn and bunting<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8220;He has to really be comfortable, and I don&#8217;t know how much he did it last year,&#8221; Cooper said. &#8220;And I don&#8217;t think he did it much as a minor league player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has to get comfortable doing it.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/sports\/bb\/5753448.html\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astros have 81 walks, the fewest in the league, and the team on-base percentage of .306 ranks 29th in baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}