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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A player’s swing takes years to craft and perfect. The shift really only started gaining popularity in baseball in the past 6-7 years, and only became something everyone did around 2018. Many players’ swings are designed to hit ball hardz making it hard to adjust.
The value of a home run greatly outweighs the value of a single, so it’s generally always better to hit ball hard.
Beating the shift would require a batter to hit ball less hard in order to hit ball the other way.
Hitting ball other way is very hard, harder than hitting ball hard if you’ve always hit ball hard.
Hit ball hard hitters still hit ball hard, since hard hit balls produce more runs.
So harder to beat shift than to hit ball hard, so just hit ball hard.
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