Joe Girardi, manager
of the AL East’s last-place Yankees,
hates defensive shifts so much he wants to ban them. And yet the
last-place Yankees are among the top MLB teams employing the shift. According to a story on si.com, opposing
teams are batting .323 against shifts by the last-place Yankees’ when they put the ball in play while batters
for the last-place New York team
fare the worst against shifts employed by opposing teams. It almost sounds as if Girardi of the last-place Yankees is a sore
loser. It sure looks like the Yankees
are a bad team in the field and at the plate.
However will the national pastime survive, let alone ESPN?
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