Baseball just outlawed the shift, and people opposed to that will always lament “why can’t they hit it where the shift isn’t?”
Obviously, even for professional hitters, this is hard. Why is that? Does it have to do with the pitch type and pitch location? If not that, is it something else other than batter handedness and tendencies?
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The cool thing about baseball is the rules are very minimal. The actual plays are more of an emergent phenomena based on physics. Balks and the infield fly rule are some of the few patches needed to prevent the game from devolving. Setting rules setting where players can stand seems counter to this minimalism. Having never read the official rule book, are infield vs outfield players even mentioned?
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