What Is MLB Shift Rule? Change for 2023 Baseball Season Explained

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But do shifts change the game that much? A year ago, The Washington Post sports columnist Barry Svrluga cited Baseball Info Solutions data that showed that 213 would-be hits from the prior year’s 60-game season resulted in outs because of shifting. If you extrapolate that proportion to a normal, 162-game season, then 575 hits would become outs because of shifting, making a change of less than 1.5 percent. “That doesn’t feel like a sea change,” Svrluga wrote.

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