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2736748, This is a dumb article that covers some of it
Posted by ShawndmeSlanted, Sat May-08-21 11:09 AM
https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/04/22/jay-bruce-retirement-shift-the-opener?fbclid=IwAR1AfhvLr8W48Aoyri5noBYkX1ZANwIzbO5qbnrO1neXOoMRJGd_XJhKfMo

I shared it with my boy last week and remarked how fuckin stupid it is that you’d end something because batters can’t figure it out. Learn how to hit away from the shift and shifts won’t happen. A day after this article Ohtani successfully bunted vs a shift.


With that said I think what combines both our responses above— is defensive analytics have become more prominent in recent years and now offensive analytics will need to balance that over the next couple of seasons