One of those rule changes included placing the following limitations on defensive shifts, beginning in the 2023 season: The four infielders must be within the boundary of the infield when the pitcher ...

The shift took over the MLB’s defensive schemes for the last four years, but this year comes with drastic changes. Here’s when teams can shift in 2023. The MLB’s meta over the last four seasons was ...

Left-handed batters, hurt by the increasingly popular practice of bunching defenders on one side of the field, are exacting their revenge by signing sweet post-shift contracts. Baseball fans are in ...

One of Major League Baseball’s rule changes designed to get people who never watch the sport to suddenly become interested is abolishing the shift. In recent years, teams have leaned heavily into ...

Today’s article will address two topics related to the impact of the MLB rules change. First, will the timer clock reduce the effectiveness of some relievers? Second, a TCB reader asks if eliminating ...

Last season, MLB teams positioned their infielders in an overshift (more than two fielders on one side of second base) on 33.6% of all plate appearances. The strategy was even more pronounced against ...

Last year, one of the concerns players had about MLB’s new rules for 2023 was the potential for teams to aggressively challenge whether a team had violated the shift. A toe over the line? Erase a ...