[Phogge]

Tatis and his mates are having fun. It’s great to be young and a Padre. The other night Hosmer deliberately took a softball swing and hit a ball to shortstop. Of course nobody was playing short. In the same game Muncy hit a bullet into base hit territory in medium deep right but of course Machado was right there to throw him out. Then in the Giants game that night Belt bunted a for a base hit with two strikes against the shift. Nobody was in the third base zip code.

I doubt that power hitting lefties will do much situational hitting. To them contracts and more important than contact against the shift (and winning).

[Phogge]

Tatis and his mates are having fun. It’s great to be young and a Padre. The other night Hosmer deliberately took a softball swing and hit a ball to shortstop. Of course nobody was playing short. In the same game Muncy hit a bullet into base hit territory in medium deep right but of course Machado was right there to throw him out. Then in the Giants game that night Belt bunted a for a base hit with two strikes against the shift. Nobody was in the third base zip code.

I doubt that power hitting lefties will do much situational hitting. To them contracts and more important than contact against the shift (and winning).