What if we’ve been thinking about The Shift all wrong this entire time?
From Ted Williams and Lou Boudreau to Anthony Rizzo and Brandon Moss, there’s more to the shift than meets the eye.
Defensive positions need not be as they have always been.
As The Shift spreads further and further across baseball, unexpected side effects have emerged to cloud the issue.
More brave bunters fight the good fight against the defensive shift.
Have the Marlins figured out how to beat the Giants at their own ballpark?
Ben and Sam banter about position player pitchers and Andrelton Simmons, then discuss batters’ latest attempts to bunt to beat the shift.
Bunts against the shift: up 100 percent since last season.
Adam Dunn, David Ortiz, and others are doing their best to make defenders abandon the ever-more-popular over-shift.