It's Teh SmAllBall!1!!1

Here's where I'm torn.

The analytical side of me looks at Nook Logan and sees a fifth outfielder -- a defensive replacement or a pinch runner.

The fanboy in me sees what he did in the third inning when he reached on a bunt single, stole second, stole third, and scored on a bounding single past a drawn-in infield and drools.

The analytical side notes that he needed to spot that bunt perfectly, and he still barely reached against a pretty mediocre defensive third baseman, and that side also points out that he's been thrown out on 2/3 of his attempts to bunt for a hit in his career.

The fanboy in me loves watching speed rule the day and was impressed at the ballsiness of taking two bags on back-to-back pitches.

The analytical side in me would point out that the steal of third was gravy, and that if you believe in the fallacy of the pre-determined outcome (ie that everything that happens after an event would still happen if things prior change), then he'd have scored from second without the risk of the steal of third.

The fanboy loves to see manufactured runs.

The analytical side knows that runs are runs and that using one-run strategies sometimes slightly increases your chance of scoring one run, but hurts your chances of scoring multiple runs, and that everything needs to go perfectly -- as it did in the third -- for the strategy to work, and would point to the caught stealings and runners stranded on third as counterbalances to one happy, fuzzy memory.

Eh, but whatever. I'll just enjoy the win. The fanboy and the analytical side can both do that, at least.

Alternatively, read Federal Baseball's take including Bonus CF speculation!