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Originally Posted by Jiggy_12
No shift? Interesting.
I don’t like the shift, but I don’t agree with stifling the game’s natural adaptations either.
Other than the P and C, there is no other inherent positions to baseball. Teams could put all 7 fielders in the OF if they wanted to, or stack them all in the IF if they chose to. Of course that would be bad strategy so they don’t.
To stifle strategy which developed naturally and mathematically seems really regressive to the game.
Don’t like the shift, but I hate this even more
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It’ll increase the value of having defensive witches at positions like 2B. And make the game more entertaining.
Remember Orlando Hudson? His Jays teams won like 70 games a year, but he was the most watchable player they had outside Halladay.
Good Defense is aesthetically pleasing - shift defense is ugly garbage.
And guys don’t lay down a bunt because they can’t - it’s not a skill they’re taught anymore, and it’s harder to bunt a 95 mph ball than it looks.