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The bold is what's wrong with your argument
He strikes out 32% of the time because he is swinging for the fences every at bat.
When you shorten your swing to slap it through the hole, your strike out percentage in those at bats is substantially lower.
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Maybe. Why are you so sure of this. And why did you ignore the rest of the math.
I can buy an argument his strikeout rate might drop, lets say to 20%. He still needs to hit 0.670 to equal his existing slugging precentage.
Do you believe Saunders can get hits 2/3 times trying to chop to that side that he puts the ball in play? Because I sure don't.
Other teams use the shift too. Your argument basically boils down to "All MLB players are too dumb to hit it the other way when the shifts on because it is easy to do"
As a left handed hitter all my life, I can tell you it is not easy to do. When I use to try I would pop up a lot of them and actually miss more pitches. Now I'm no where as good as a MLB player, but these guys have batted 1 way their whole life.
Now regarding Gibbons. He is for sure in the bottom half of the managers in the league. ESPN actually rated him dead last this season at the all star break despite being in 1st place (or close)
I am not sure if he is the worst, but he for sure trusts his players and sticks to the same strategy every situation. An everyday fan could manage as well. I can't think of one "Nice manager move" this entire season from him.