CDAV45
Small ball is for pussies!
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Let's see if we can get a better understanding. They pull the ball because pitchers are pounding them inside. At the same time analytics suggest that placing everyone on the right side of the diamond against a LHH while pitching them inside is effective at reducing hits. This isn't theory Coach. It's data driven results. In response to this, the data suggests that the best way to beat this strategy is to get the ball in the air. I'm not arguing with you here, you're arguing with the analytics. I'd rather see good hitters rewarded more. The way MLB is being played right now is not good for the type of hitters you appreciate other than the absolute elite.Then why do so many players pull the ball even in the minors? I know I am probably going a bit overboard in a sense, but it does feel like the bat to ball skills aren't as great as they used to be as a whole...
Well, you're entitled to your opinion, but it has no factual basis and I think that in an era when analytics are used more than ever your "old school" ideology would be used if it worked. It doesn't and therefore we have the current means of baseball strategy. What you are right about is that it's up to players and organizations to beat the shifts, and guess what, the data tells them that the current approach is the most beneficial. Good organizations do exploit it with guys that hit a lot of homeruns, walk a good amount, and don't concern themselves with K's. What are the chances that all of professional baseball just doesn't have a grasp on things like you do. They just don't realize yet that in order to beat the shift you have to "work at it".Nonsense. In one paragraph you talk about players and their physicality being better than ever before, but now the skills aren't "common place." The skills are not commonplace because they are not valued. You want to beat shifts, you work at it. You don't, then you won't. It's up to players and organizations to beat shifts, not changing the rules to enforce something people refuse to do.
If there's a new inefficiency that shifting has created, good organizations will exploit it.