But until recently, the alignment was rare enough ... Epstein notes that regulating the shift won't impact the increase in strikeouts that baseball has seen as average velocity climbs, and it ...

I don't mean to the baseball, its new specifications serving ... handed hitter is up and restores a more traditional infield alignment that's certain to yield more hits on balls in play.

Major League Baseball has made three major rule changes for the 2023 season, and one that seems to be very polarizing is something that might be called the "shift ... with the alignment of the ...

The purpose of limiting defensive alignment should be to reward ... changes is that MLB is hoping the new defensive shift rules will fix baseball’s inaction problem. Those improvements will ...

Many fans love the new rules that Major League Baseball implemented in 2023 ... MLB defines a “shift” as an alignment in which “three or more infielders are on the same side of second ...

So it was a striking moment in New York's dugout when Hicks — facing a traditional infield alignment ... shift didn’t matter much as Gallo drew a walk, but such is the new reality in baseball ...

It was an extreme defensive shift deployed against one of college baseball’s most productive lefthanded swingers. And Caglianone was hardly a fan. “It doesn’t seem fair,” he said through a ...

Many fans love the new rules that Major League Baseball implemented in 2023 ... The new rule eliminates the defensive “shift” that was used successfully against Seager and other left-handed ...