Rod Carew "speaking out - to the commissioner"

Tyruscobb · #1 08-28-2022, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by butchie_t

Someone puts a shift on, FREAKING LEARN TO HIT THE BALL WHERE THEY AIN�T and quit bitching about the shift

I 100% agree. If a team wants to shift 6 players to one side, when a dead pull hitter is up, it should have this right. A team should have the ability to place players anywhere on the field that it wants.

Lay down a bunt to the other side, or learn how to hit to the opposite field. Adjust, and show you can adjust, and shifts would end. Banning a shift reduces strategy and gamesmanship.

1952boyntoncollector · #2 08-28-2022, 10:37 AM

(Sacrifice flies were counted as at-bats in 1941; under today's rules, Williams would have hit between .411 and .419, based on contemporaneous game accounts.[61])

we worried about how they change stats? What arent Sac flies outs? ..so now you want to keep the sac in but they arent out? Seems like encouraging them already....how dare we change what a perfect game can be broken up in the 10th with a runner on 2nd...but changing what makes a .300 hitter doesnt matter..

1952boyntoncollector · #3 08-28-2022, 10:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tyruscobb

I 100% agree. If a team wants to shift 6 players to one side, when a dead pull hitter is up, it should have this right. A team should have the ability to place players anywhere on the field that it wants.

Lay down a bunt to the other side, or learn how to hit to the opposite field. Adjust, and show you can adjust, and shifts would end. Banning a shift reduces strategy and gamesmanship.

I agree with this however its still a business...just like the off chance someone pitches a perfect game into the 11th..what about if tv ratings and attendence went down 75% because of the shift...i would make the shift illegal to save baseball if too boring etc...again i am against it but in the off chance baseball was in danger to lose huge market share, you got to do what you got to do..not saying thats what happening now...

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