Infield Hit Model, Part 2: Use the Whole Field, Hit Line Drives
Bobby Witt Jr. of the Kansas City Royals (Trading Card Database) Tom Verducci wrote the following in 2023: “From 2015 to 2022, the (infield) shift helped take 2,065 groundball hits out of the game. … Batters saw hit probability on grounders reduced by the shift, so they tried to hit over defensive alignments.”1 Some […]