Friday, March 07, 2014
What do pitchers think of the shift?
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"From my understanding, they were just taking stats and putting it into a database; they weren't taking in other variables such as velocity, power pitcher or finesse pitcher," said Bud Norris, now with the Orioles. "So it was a little frustrating to be with Houston at a time we were struggling and to keep moving people all over the field.
"It just got really confusing toward the end. I couldn't move people where I wanted to. We move people around here [in Baltimore] to put them in the right position. We did it the opposite way down there. They did it more for a database down there. They were trying to get information to make their own new system. It was really confusing, and they didn't have any input from me or any of their pitchers."
Getting the pitchers on board with the idea seems an essential element to the successful application of the shift, because the last thing a team wants is a pitcher rattled before he even goes into his windup.
This is the primary reason even a forward-thinking organization such as the Cardinals was among the least shifty squads in baseball last season. The Cards are in the process of implementing the idea at their Minor League levels, getting their pitchers to "buy in" to the approach at a grassroots stage before implementing it full-bore on the big league stage.
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