I read this tweet on another site:
"From STATS LLC: 15,007 defensive shifts in 2014, up from 7,641 previous year. And the BABIP went UP, from .297 to .299. UP!"
That is quite an increase in shifts. Perhaps teams are beginning to overuse it?
I would like to know if that BABIP is for all batters, or only for batters that were shifted against.