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[left]Sixty years ago, a player-manager from the Cleveland Indians named Lou Bodreau came up with a defensive strategy to stop Ted Williams' brilliant hitting.
At the time, Williams was playing some of the best baseball ever -- even compiling a .408 batting average in a single season.
In an attempt to stop Williams, Bodreau came up with a defensive shift which was unorthodox but ended up effective:
The shift has taken over baseball this year. The number of balls in play hit with a defensive shift on went from under 5% in 2011 to almost 30% of all balls in play this year.
As offensive numbers go down, there is some talk of banning the shifts in order to boost offensive numbers as one of many rules changes.
But so long as they're here, are you using defensive shifts in MLB The Show 16? If so, how effective have they been vs. a more traditional defensive alignment?
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Offline- I didn't have much luck pitching to the shift. My strategy was offspeed pitches to pull shifts and fastballs away to push shifts. I don't know what generates the AI's timing but it seems random and shifting didn't help me.
Online- it's too exploitable for me to use. Gameplay seems better balanced without shifts