It is absolutely time for the MLB to look into banning the shift or at least banning the humidors and returning to the rocket ball. The games right now are almost unwatchable. The shift is forcing good hitters to need to elevate their launch angle which is leading to more K's. MLB decided to pull back on the core of the ball which has led to less HRs. What you have is an unexciting product. It is one thing to watch a beautiful pitching duel in between a few badly pitched games. But in today's game, it seems every game is a pitcher's duel and it is more rare to see offense. I can enjoy the purity of a good pitching duel, but most fans cannot and it is killing the product.
It is time for a rule where 2 infielders must be on the left side of 2nd and 2 infielders must be on the right side of 2nd. Therefore, if you want to truly shift, you have to pull an outfielder over which leaves a wide open outfield section and a far more enticing target for hitters and a far less enticing scenario for managers to utilize. This will allow the true big power hitters to also have high averages again
Hal sucks
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BREAKING: The Oakland A's will start exploring relocation possibilities after Major League Baseball suggested the organization consider moving to other cities if the Howard Terminal stadium proposal is not approved by local politicians.
Should have been allowed to move to San Jose 20 years ago.
I read an article where the mlb batting avg is 234. All time low. This shifting crap has got to stop. Changes need to be done. I'm honestly sick of this crap. It's all analytics. Players have a cheat sheet on the field on where to play everyone. Get back to the old playing days and play everyone straight up and enough of these cheat sheet crap. It's getting worse by the year. I watch games and you hear the announcers " oh wow that fielder played that perfecty " no fucking shit, he looked at his cheat sheet and knew where to position himself. To me this also takes away the human element and who knows if these fielders would be as good without their blanky. I'm 40 years old and if I look back 20 years ago, I was way more interested in games than I am now. And the Sox are killing it with 4 WS titles. If anything I should be more interested with the fact from all the winning.