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Has Jason Heyward ever bunted as a member of the Chicago Cubs? I’m asking for a couple thousand friends. So I checked and the answer is ’no’.
It seems to me that one of the people that the shift is most effective against is Heyward. He pulls the ball at a consistent rate of 34.7 percent, more than six full points above the league average. He also goes opposite field about half as often as the rest of the league. The extra infielder in the shift gobbles up his grounders without so much as a ‘thank-you’.