To bunt or not to bunt that is the real question.  I am a believer in conserving outs unless my back is totally against the wall.  My strategy is to never bunt a runner from 1st to 2nd anytime before the 7th inning.  It is about this time when you will realize you have no options left because you have to force a run across and your team simply isn’t hitting enough and you are hoping to advance a runner and get lucky.  I also do not like to bunt the top of my order.  If I have a guy on 1st base and I have my 2,3,4 hitters coming up, it is my opinion I have a better chance giving all three of them a chance to hit instead of moving a guy up a base and losing an out, which by the way you only get so many.  In this situation I am more inclined to get the runner moving with a steal attempt and give my best hitters three chances.  However if we are down by 1 and I have a guy on second I will bunt my 2 hitter to give 3 and 4 a chance to drive him in.  The difference being from second with one out you have to get a hit, from third with one out a routine ground ball or a fly ball will usually score the runner unless the infield is in which we all know from Arizona vs. the Yankees opens the field way up.  Again this is simply my philosophy, and I am laying it out there for you because I think it makes perfect sense to follow this style.  Giving away outs is something I teach my players not to do, so why should I start doing it.  Let the hitters hit, put a guy in motion, making the defense work always causes havoc.  I love when teams bunt guys over from 1st to 2nd, my players know they are to get the out at first and the pitcher is to focus on the next hitter.  A lot of times hitters in this situation will try to do to much and get themselves out because they want to drive in a run so bad they lose their approach.  Remember a metal bat makes most nine hitters dangerous.