Major League Baseball: Kansas City Royals
Put Ned Yost in baseballs anti-defensive shift camp.
The topic arose from a recent report affirming that baseball was on pace to have the fewest singles in a season, and Yost had his reason.
Its a product of the shift in my mind, more than anything else, Yost said. Its harder to hit singles. You either go the other way or find a crease, which is increasingly more difficult than its ever been.
The story by Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports suggests several factors for singles accounting for 63.69 percent of the…
