Firstly let’s start off with the fact that I am not a plant, stooge or shill for MLB, Statcast or Baseball Savant (I would like to be, but I am not). But secondly, I need to tell you all that
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Tag: Shift
A four-man outfield: last positioning gambit or the new norm?
With the 2019 MLB season about to start, a whirlwind of uncertainty surrounds the game. Firstly, the second year of cold ‘hot stove season’ with limited free agency signings happening has lead to open discussion of action by the players’
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The Shift – What Is Causing The LHH v RHH Difference
This previous analysis I have done (here & here), I have shown that shift is working against LHH but not against RHH. Also, I have shown that what is going on with the shift, for both RHH and LHH, is
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How well is your team using the shift?
In a previous article, where I looked at the impact of the shift in 2018, there was some evidence to suggest that shifting was working against left handers and not against right handers. But there are additional variables which we
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