CINCINNATI -- Adrian Gonzalez is one of the many hitters adjusting to a drastic increase in overshifts this season, and for perfectly justifiable reasons. When Gonzalez hits a ground ball this season, 61 percent of the time it goes to the right side.He is the classic profile of a hitter who prompts a team to move its shortstop or third baseman to the right side of the infield: He is left-handed, with power, and very little speed.And yet the Dodgers don't necessarily want him radically adjusting his swing or taking a different approach with three infielders defending the right side, the second baseman typically in shallow right field.
Gonzalez one of many ‘victims’ of the shift
Published June 10, 2014 at 3:36 PM
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