What are you talking about? To hit the ball to the right side as a righty, simply TIME the pitch correctly (be late on it) and you will hit the ball to the right side. Pressing down on the right stick will influence a grounder but pushing left or right on the right stick only works for bunting, when you swing it's all about timing to pull the ball or hit it to the opposite field. How does that not make perfect sense?
MVP hitting system was so dumbed down it wasn't even funny, and took so much control away from the user it wasn't even funny. You seriously only had to determine the horizontal location of the pitch to hit it well. It didn't matter if the ball was up or down as long as you correctly identified that the pitch was inside or outside. With power hitters, all you had to do was hold up and in with the left stick and wait for any inside pitch. Hitting took very little user skill since you only had to time the pitch well along with good horizontal location. Nailing down horizontal and vertical location with correct timing is so much harder and more realistic. And since hitting in MVP took almost no skill, way too much of the game was determined by player attributes. If I have a crappy hitter at the plate, chances are he's not going to hit the ball well no matter how well I swing since his attributes aren't good. Trying to put what The Show does with both the left and right sticks on just the left stick results in batting being extremely simplified and dumbed down.