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Fangraphs: Examining Responses to the Shift


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http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/examining-responses-to-the-shift/

To come up with a pool of players, I grabbed all the hitters who, according to this post, hit at least 25 balls in play with a shift in 2013. These are players who might?ve had the biggest reasons to work on a different approach going into the next season. So the player pool spans from David Ortiz to David Murphy. I eliminated the few players who didn?t play, or who barely played, in 2014. I was left with a sample of 79 guys.

Seventy nine guys.

They want to change the rules for 79 guys.

The 79 guys can change.

Anyway the rest of the piece is decent enough.

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