As bad is the infield is playing, do you think:

When it works it’s great
When it doesn’t & you have kids out there that haven’t had any meaningful playing time it’s really bad

totally agree

I think a lot of the outs are misleading. A lot of the shifts that “work” would have been made without the shift. These shifts also don’t create great angles for double plays.

The shift is necessary in today’s game. But whoever is in charge of LSUs shifting is a fricking moron.

You have plays against lefties where they shift the second baseman over to shallow RF, but they don’t bring the SS over to the 2B side. You have players switching shift position mid AB. Why the frick is Milam ever playing the shallow RF spot. It’s just insane

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That maybe we should stop with all the damn shifting? I mean seriously.

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I think he should shut it down. frick the analytics, let the players field their own positions. The way baseball players have been doing for 150 years.

In today’s game? In the history of baseball, hitters have always had tendencies and their opponents had spray charts that were kept. Pitchers pitched to their weakness and position players move to their tendencies but all this moving all around is ridiculous. Cowan got 3 routine groundballs and a weak flyout and gives up 3 runs.

Worst infield at LSU since I started watching LSU baseball in 1988!

As much as we are replacing fielders at this point in the season it makes no sense. Play them straight up and see what happens. We still don’t have a set 3rd and 2nd baseman, and we are still shifting. No way they can get comfortable and confident.

The shift didn’t really come into vogue until the late 40s when Indians manager Lou Boudreau, knowing that Ted Williams couldn’t go the opposite way to save his own mother, devised it to defend him. Even then, it was seldom ever used until about the last 15 years for every Tom, Dick and Harry NOT named Ted Williams.

I feel like its one of those things, you remember it more when it doesnt work, than all the times it works. There is a reason every major club shifts, it works. But i think expecting freshmen to do it constantly and changing their positions is asking a bit much