The ‘ban the shift’ movement is apparently picking up steam around the league. Commissioner Rob Manfred has long sought to eliminate defensive shifts, but banning them won’t solve baseball’s problems, and it won’t help the Orioles
Jayson Stark published a piece over at The Athletic on Wednesday morning, suggesting that the league, as a whole, is moving closer toward banning, or limiting, defensive shifts. This has been a hot topic around the league for some time as league-wide shifting has skyrocketed over the past 5-10 years, and as MLB has trended more and more toward three true outcome baseball. But defensive shifts aren’t the problem that many would lead you to believe, and a rule change…
