What MLB should enact instead of outlawing the shift.

[traderumor]

quit tinkering with rules to address cycles that come from teams trying to win within the rules. It is that simple.

[mth123]

I just don't like banning the shift. If a team knows exactly where a guy is going to hit the ball, they should be able to line the defense up to stop it.

[westofyou]

Maybe the word started then, but having a right hander and a left hander share positional time based on the handedness of the pitchers they face goes back to before 1900.

Well yeah, that's a given. 1914 Braves brought it into the 20th century fully and Casey Stengel was a prime example of a guy who never saw LH pitching much later in his career and took that lesson to the 1950s Yankees where he applied it liberally and in the face of dissenting press, fans and players

[Roy Tucker]

I don’t like the shift. It makes the game I've known for 57 years unfamiliar in not a good way. But any anti-shift rules seem artificial and forced. And probably takes the game even further away from the one I love.

So let’s play it out with shifts and launch angles and all that crap. It will take a few years, but batters will eventually adapt and start hitting them where they ain’t. Split finger pitches have diminished and high strikes, once a fatal zone for pitchers, has become the vogue. The only constant is change. I’m more a fan of natural changes as a result of current strategies rather than jamming something in. I’ll get more used to shifts and the game will go on.