Reply to "Do you like the shift?"

Dominik8510,000+ posts

Batty67 posted:
If it did not work in MLB they would not do it. Does a team get burned badly now and then and look stupid? You bet!
Anecdotally, my son was on a 14u team and ripping the ball in a DH. Hard, low LD up the middle single, LD double to right-center (bats LH), LD triple to RF. Next AB, hits a hard LD to right center, nd the CF was standing right there waiting for it; barely moved. My son looked like "you can't do that!" Hah.

I think they work either way. Either they cost you obp if you pull the ball or they cost you slugging if you go the other way.

At lower levels obp is king and power doesn't play a big role but in mlb both are equally as important because it is hard there to string together singles and walks with all the Ks that happen there.

6/11/1712:10 PM

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