Baseball Shifts

Today as I was going through my Twitter feed I came upon a controversial topic.  Shifts in baseball especially in the MLB have been more common lately and the topic comes up, is it right?  A lot of the traditional baseball fans who stick to the core rules and don't want change say no and want to ban shifts.  The opposition says its part of the game and it is just adapting to the tendencies of the batter.  I think they are both right.  Here's why, one, I am one of those traditionalists.  I don't want to see the game change.  The whole point of the game is on human error, so when they implemented replays and now challenges I was completely against it.

So now when you see a second basemen playing in shallow right field I'm thinking this isn't really right.  The traditionalist fan in me is screaming inside, but then I think isn't there shifts when there's a chance to turn a double play, how about when the infield plays in to stop the runner from scoring on third.  The outfield always shades a certain batter who is up.  Here's an example, Joe Mauer is a left handed batter so typically you would see the outfielders shade him to pull the ball to right field, but Mauer is well known to hit the ball the other way so actually the outfielders shade him towards left field.  It is all based on the certain tendencies players have.  So now when I look at this whole shift ordeal it is actually really simple to fix and it's with a baseball saying.  'Hit it where they ain't'.