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@skinnie2838

2 жыл бұрын

Ban moving your defense around in the field? Huh?

@theCranesUS

2 жыл бұрын

Until teams make it not worth the shift batters will do it. I love the batters doing this

@NomaDL2224

2 жыл бұрын

Is there a reason you cover up half the screen with with ads for your other videos we can't get rid of, really kind of ruined the nice little surprise at the end.

More guys need to do this. The over-shifting is ridiculous ... but effective. Fielders are essentially telling hitters that they're incapable of hitting to half of the field and hitters usually prove them correct. I learned how to slap a bunt down when I was in Little League. Don't ban the shift, beat it.

@garrettsteven1963

2 жыл бұрын

The fact that you watched Gallo’s entire career doing that in two minutes is kind of telling. Players DONT adapt. We’ve watched them fail to do so for years. So moving forward, knowing that baseball is dying in viewership and interest, how can you possibly expect ANYTHING to change? You say “beat it” and they sit on your couch watching players simply not beat it for years and years…. That’s your solution?

@ministryoftruth1451

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more. I think the home run has ruined baseball. Everybody is a 20 home run hitter. In turn everyone is a 100 strikeout hitter or more. Defense is poor. Its an unwatchable game at the moment. The DH only made it worse.

@jordansammons150

2 жыл бұрын

@Dutch Van Der Linde I wish you were my manager. Always having a plan!

@bobholt6217

2 жыл бұрын

No, they really need to ban it.

@TheBatugan77

2 жыл бұрын

@@garrettsteven1963 Hire players than play good fundamental baseball. Shitcan those that don't. Shitcan exit velocity, radar guns, shock-collars, etc. Get on, get em over, get em in. It works.

Can we just appreciate how good those bunts actually are.

@moncorp1

2 жыл бұрын

Gallo might get his batting average up to .200 if he keeps this up.

@joellahrman4557

2 жыл бұрын

We should...contrary to what lots of people are posting, it's not that easy to bunt for a hit even against the shift.

@brantleywiley1279

2 жыл бұрын

@@joellahrman4557 that’s why Votto said that he focuses on hitting the ball hard because that’s had the best success in beating the shift

@AAAskeet

2 жыл бұрын

yes really nice

@TheBatugan77

2 жыл бұрын

@@joellahrman4557 With a guy on third with less than two outs, a grounder into the shift means a run. So does a fly ball. Neither of those are that hard.

I hope they don’t ban the shift. I also hope more guys start doing exactly what gallo does in these clips.

@Venulareye2835

2 жыл бұрын

It’s gone next season

@golfmaniac007

2 жыл бұрын

would be stupid if they didn't allow the shift. teams just need to counteract. baseball is not just about base hits and HR. its a shame that NL adopted the DH. NL games without the DH was much better baseball without it.

@KylesDaddy100

2 жыл бұрын

I won’t watch anymore baseball. It’s getting worse every year.

@bubbagc859

2 жыл бұрын

@@golfmaniac007 I understand your point, but you’re not gonna get kids to watch baseball if everytime contact is made, it’s an out to the shift…it makes less action offensively and defensively, and takes out the skill of placing pitches

@garrettsteven1963

2 жыл бұрын

…why? It’s INCREDIBLY rare that guys pull this off. Cool when it happens sure, but the game of baseball is better without shifts. “Just bunt to the hole” Is really not a valid argument because nobody does it or pulls it off consistently. We want a better product to watch, banning the shift brings up average quality even if you miss out on the every once in a while bunt

It’s about time one of these hitters started doing this. The game really ain’t about your extra base hit stats; the game is about “the more runners you get on base, the better your odds of scoring”. It’s up to the hitters to keep the opposing fielders/managers honest. Were I a manager, I would bench a player who refused to learn to bunt. ESPECIALLY if it were a player who the opponent over-shifts.

@chrism82793

2 жыл бұрын

When you mentioned the more runs the better your odds thing all I could think about the scene in money Ball where they're talking about players and the old scouts talk about players like having a good hot girlfriend or that they can't do this or they can't do that the coach only cares about can they get on base

@owentolson8978

2 жыл бұрын

They also dont want the pitchers feeling hurt for giving up a hit. Just luke all the unwritten rules are for pitchers. Well most but you catch my drift

@KCJbomberFTW

2 жыл бұрын

Wait is that the issue??? That people don’t know how to bunt 🤣 Sign me up coach

@mikeskordynski

2 жыл бұрын

It’s funny he actually does this to get easy hits you think it would boost his avg but he’s still a sub .200 hitter in recent years lol

@muddblood5806

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikeskordynski he was infuriating on the rangers for this reason. We all knew he had the talent but he could just never be consistent

I've been saying for ages to just bunt against the shift. So glad someone is finally doing it. That pull bunt at the end was so good!

@johncortez1599

2 жыл бұрын

Came here to say this, why the heck haven't teams been doing this since day one??!

@lok1_m674

2 жыл бұрын

Some see small ball as inferior.

@somepeoplecanthandlethetruth

2 жыл бұрын

@@johncortez1599 because he takes the away the home run threat from a teams highest paid players. Home runs put points on the board. Itsbthe reason baseball was so popular during the steriod era.

@squirrelydan3

2 жыл бұрын

@@somepeoplecanthandlethetruth a homerun would beat the shift too, but I think I know what you're saying. For some guys, it just affects their hitting from a mental standpoint.

@elivandrisse

2 жыл бұрын

@@johncortez1599 you get paid more for 1 home run than 2 bunt singles and whatever

Gosh, it's as if there is a way to beat the shift instead of complaining about it.

@Julian-jd5yj

2 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU! Finally someone says it. MLB is obsessed with hitting for power when it's really not necessary. Singles and doubles win games. I'd rather lead the league in batting average than homeruns

@TheSonofabiscuit

2 жыл бұрын

I'd rather watch a power hitter swing the bat, these bunts are outs without the shift. Even a single up the middle is more entertaining than a bunt, but the shift prevents that. A bunt is entertaining with a fast runner, not a power hittwr lol

@TheSonofabiscuit

2 жыл бұрын

Yet.. if all these guys just bunted EVERY time they saw this shift, maybe they'd stop shifting. That'd be my strategy as a manager.

@Wozrop

2 жыл бұрын

This is not beating the shift, if Gallo bunts instead of hitting a double or home run thats a win for the pitcher.

@Wozrop

2 жыл бұрын

@@Julian-jd5yj That's just straight up not true, what wins games are doubles and home runs, and to a lesser extent, singles and walks. You can like slappy contact hitters, I too love some Tim Anderson, but if you could only hit one result be it singles doubles triples whatever, doubles and home runs would be the most effective, you only need 2 doubles to score, you need at least 3 sometimes 4 if you don't have a fast runner, singles to score a run.

Don’t ban the shift, learn to beat it. Baseball is beautiful, putting strict lines on it wear you have to stand would be unnecessary, unnatural, subjective at worst, and bent until broken at best. If it were implemented, with the emphasis on home runs today, hitters would become even more pull heavy. Fielders to the batter’s left would become irrelevant when lefties come up. I could foresee players getting a running start, trying to time them crossing their “fielding boundary” when the pitch is thrown. Talk about CFL football. Keep bunting a part of the game, learn to bunt, at the least the shift provides the only real push back against the home-run-or-nothing mindset of so many hitters today. If the shift is implemented you are selecting even more of these home-run-or-nothing mindset hitters. Joey Gallo showed us it is possible to have this mindset while beating the shift when it is put on. We should select for this style of play, on keeping small ball a meaningful part of the game, that is what makes good baseball.

@mattmurphy5805

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree, I think fielders should play wherever they want.

@garrettsteven1963

2 жыл бұрын

Players aren’t learning to beat it, they haven’t for years, you can’t just expect that to change. You’ve watched them fail to beat the shift for years on end why would anything change moving forward. Gallo shows us over his entire career why we can’t expect players to bunt around a shift- he barely did it. Nothing will change. “Learn to bunt” simply isn’t a solution to the problem that we both seem to agree is a problem. They haven’t done so already, you shouldn’t expect them to moving forward

@TheBatugan77

2 жыл бұрын

@@garrettsteven1963 Does someone smack your dome and you repeat this?

@garrettsteven1963

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBatugan77 idk I just wanted to talk ab it

@chance2413

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattmurphy5805 You guys say it is about tradition, for 100 years they stood in one spot, why should that change now? What's next, everyone standing in right field? When does it end?

Batters that get shifted on should have training sessions exclusively on bunting. Clearly most need it.

@philipmichael1032

2 жыл бұрын

They should also be able to hit a hard ground ball the opposite way. No reason a guy paid 100 mil shouldn’t be able to hit the ball to all fields

@reecemayfield7908

2 жыл бұрын

@@philipmichael1032 yea dude cuz hitting a 100 mph ball is incredibly easy to do! especially easy to control where it goes!

@8722jojo

2 жыл бұрын

@@reecemayfield7908 Not too many pitchers are throwing 100 or more. High 90s but I get your point. I don’t think anybody was saying it was easy. Just that he should learn to attack all angles of the field instead of complaining. Which by the looks of this video he has

@philipmichael1032

2 жыл бұрын

@@8722jojo thank you bro. Exactly what I was saying. As a professional hitter, it’s your job to learn how to take the ball the other way. I was seeing high 80s, low 90s in high school and I could take it the other way. Why couldn’t a guy who gets paid to do it, do it?

@philipmichael1032

2 жыл бұрын

@@reecemayfield7908 see below, bud

Good for him.. for a guy that notoriously is a true 2 outcome guy he swallows his pride and puts the bunt down.. good baseball

@Brett733

2 жыл бұрын

I think you mean 3 outcome guy. Walk/Strikeout/Homerun

@paulpinball9952

2 жыл бұрын

His "pride" is the biggest impediment to cracking league Top Ten in batting average--until opponents (incl. MLB) scrap the shift.

@Brett733

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulpinball9952 What are you talking about? he is a career .205 hitter. There are lots of pull hitters that manage .300. Gallo literally has the lowest average in the entire MLB for qualified players over the last 5 years, and you think his "pride" is keeping him out of top 10?

@damon6126

2 жыл бұрын

Swallowing his pride would mean he'd actually learn plate discipline rather than just hacking at anything and everything.

@Brett733

2 жыл бұрын

@@damon6126Given that he has lead the league in walks before and is consistently among the leaders in walks per plate appearance I would say he has very good plate discipline and you don't know what you are talking about.

Let’s just take a moment to appreciate his ability to take a pitch at his chin down the 3rd base line.

It warms my heart every time I see this. Do it every time and they will quit shifting on you eventually. Until then, just enjoy the free hits and extra batting average points.

@joellahrman4557

2 жыл бұрын

No they won't. Teams WANT batters to bunt against the shift, that's why they're doing it. And it's not like guys are getting four bunt hits a game. Bunting for a hit is not an automatic thing.

@Schwedeballz

2 жыл бұрын

@@joellahrman4557 then keep bunting.

In basketball, if you can't shoot, players just won't guard you outside the paint. It's the same thing here, beat the shift by proving you can hit the ball anywhere else. Bunts aren't analytic darlings, but bunting against shifts is. Bunt once or twice against a shift and it will move over. Your opb becomes how good you are at bunting at that point

@codyeble0713

2 жыл бұрын

Was gonna be my point exactly.. can't shoot free throws, literally had hack a Shaq.. don't take the strategy outta the game, make these guys learn to be better

@russs7574

2 жыл бұрын

You point out the problem in your comment. Everything in baseball is analytics.

@garrettsteven1963

2 жыл бұрын

@@codyeble0713 As someone who holds the position of “let players learn to beat it” do you see that happening in the near/ distant future? If it hasn’t happened yet, will it happen moving forward? Guys want to perform to get paid, if it was as simple as that why haven’t they done it yet? I just don’t see any reason at all to expect change… people who argue against banning the shift seem to have no solution. Just doing nothing doesn’t seem to be a solution bc nothing has changed yet what will make it change going forward

@Teladian2

2 жыл бұрын

A hit is a hit is a hit

@ted6580

2 жыл бұрын

A better analogy is after the boring, low-scoring highly-defensive 2005 NBA Finals between the Spurs and Pistons, the league changed the rules to get rid of hand-checking on the perimeter to create more offense which directly led to guys like Steph Curry dominating. Nobody likes watching defense dominate and shifting is a large part of that

live by the shift - die by the shift

That is exactly how the game is played. Hit it where they ain't!! Job well done.

It really is that simple. If you aren't a professional enough hitter to hit the ball to all parts of the field, you should be able to at least check down to a bunt to take what is being given. And if you can't do that you shouldn't be in the bigs...or any level of professional ball really. And if you are in the bigs and you can't do either, you should never open your mouth to complain about the shift. No ban is needed. A competent plate appearance by the batter is all that's needed.

@garrettsteven1963

2 жыл бұрын

The whole premise needs to be shifted from the players to the fans. So what if they should learn how to bunt it doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is the better viewing experience that comes with not having players over and over and over hit into a guy standing directly there. It takes skill out of placing pitches to your batter also. It’s not a good product, we aren’t MLB players, so let’s ban the shift

@hobartchapel9515

2 жыл бұрын

100 percent Not even 99

@duffbeer31

2 жыл бұрын

Learn to bunt the damn ball and hit to the opposite field. I hate watching all the strikeouts. They are giving batters an easy single or double if they work at it. Its not harder now than it was years ago. It's easier with all that wide open space

@robertbuzzell6528

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! A good hitter can bunt, hit it to all fields.

@socraticirony80

2 жыл бұрын

They are professional enough. These ridiculous extreme shifts violate the spirit of the game and cant be banned soon enough imo.

I absolutely, positively, love the hustle in the last clip! Nothing will hype fans/teammates/coach up more than when you bust you tail like this and pull off the infield single.

Hack-a-Shaq for baseball. Whether it's shooting free throws or executing a bunt, players executing on fundamentals will have better results than arbitrary rule changes.

All those bunt base hits must had raised his batting average from .100 to .150.

@artyg4716

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah! 😂. A whole lot better than watching him strike out all the time.

@tylergoodwin3546

2 жыл бұрын

..I like gallo..but this is so true

@artyg4716

2 жыл бұрын

I am betting that the Yankees have told him not to bunt. He was struggling so much you would figure that he would try a bunt just to get a hit and break out of his slump. 🤦🏾‍♂️

@36A

2 жыл бұрын

maybe, but how's your baseball career going, Xiong-Dong ?? 🙂⚾️

@dulpurp

2 жыл бұрын

In 2021 the dude batted .199 and struck out 213 times. And yet he had a WAR of 4.7. This is why baseball sucks now.

Thank you, Lefty. I loved every second of watching this video!

This is awesome, i wondered for years why more players haven’t done this.

An interesting fact about Gallo's bunting: despite being in the league since 2015, his first bunt hit didn't come until 2018.

@clinic9189

2 жыл бұрын

P ppl

I loved every minute of this. And I have bunted so much in my time playing baseball. Bunts are awesome!

@ryankarim7141

2 жыл бұрын

It was two minutes lol

@gregrld

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryankarim7141 but if you watch it on 2x 😆

@thomasmullaly200

2 жыл бұрын

i hate bunting. i love taking at bats and bunting kinda ruins it for me. but if my coach wants me to sac bunt to advance a runner i have no problem with that.

Nice compilation video. I love bunting against the shift and I hope Gallo and others continue to do it. When it comes to batting average, it obviously increases it. On-base percentage increases. OPS either goes up or stays the same (I can't tell but I know it doesn't go down). Keep it up until they stop shifting on you!

I love everything about this! Master of the craft…this is a ball player.

Roger Maris drove in 141 in '61. He whiffed just 67 times. Imagine that.

@russs7574

2 жыл бұрын

Go you one better. When Babe Ruth hit his 60 in 1927, he whiffed a mere 89 times AND batted .356. In 1941, Joe DiMaggio's MVP season, he hit .357, 30 HR, and struck out 13 times. And Yogi Berra had a run of consecutive seasons in the 50's where he had more HR's than strikeouts. Of course, nobody is going to mistake The Human Wind Generator Joey Gallo for either of those greats.

@unanimousreporting8250

2 жыл бұрын

I tell you it’s a damn shame what the game has become it’s almost unwatchable with all the strikeouts there’s just no strategy to the game all the fun of stealing bases and hit n runs is out the window.

@damon6126

2 жыл бұрын

@@russs7574 "Human Wind Generator" 😆😅🤣😂

@TheImapotato

2 жыл бұрын

@@russs7574 I got one just marginally, slightly better. Joe Sewell in 8333 PAs only struck out 114 times and hit 436 2bs 68 3bs and 49 HRs. In 1932 in 576 PAs he struck out 3 times and hit 11 Hrs, he also played 1100 consecutive games. I'd love to see that baseball style come back.

@seans4961

2 жыл бұрын

@@unanimousreporting8250 it’s literally all strategy the strategy is a home run is worth one run a strike out and a line out are worth the same amount of ours

Best compilation I saw all year

If everyone learned how to lay down a decent bunt, managers would get tired of giving the opposing team an extra base runner or two each inning, and the shift would disappear as quickly as it came. I hate the shift, but it's a strategy that works. It's up to the players and managers to decide that they want to do something about it.

@billko867

2 жыл бұрын

@James Alexander Fairly new - I've only been watching since the late 60's. ;) I can hate a good strategy. I should elaborate and say that, as much as I hate the shift, I don't want it banned. Just because players and coaches don't want to adapt, that doesn't mean we should artificially exclude a sound strategy. Probably if you bothered reading for content, instead of thinking about what you were going to say in your tirade, you would've noted that I pretty much agree on every point you made.

David Ortiz did this as well. Albeit, not nearly as often. It generally has an incredibly high success rate, even if you’re as slow as Pujols. The bunt is very underrated.

I would love to see him do this for as many at bats in a row as possible until the opposition finally stops shifting on him. How many games would that last? A lot?

@johnsilcox8

2 жыл бұрын

If he was only successful half the time, a guy hitting .500, even if it was only singles, anywhere in your line up would make a team's expected runs scored skyrocket. Once he got really good at it, a .600 or .700 batting average would be ridiculous. He would score 200 runs by himself.

@zp9dy3

2 жыл бұрын

That's some good bunting

@NomaDL2224

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnsilcox8 I hear what you're saying, but all of that is assuming the opposing team doesn't adjust. All it would take would be putting the third basemen back on the grass to take away the bunt. But I do wish more players did this because I FN hate the shift lol

@seans4961

2 жыл бұрын

They wouldn’t because giving up a bunt single is still immensely better then a home run or a double

@huckfin1598

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that’s called strategy. You baseball people are dumb AF

I have no clue why I watch these types of videos all the way through. The title says exactly what it is, and I get the idea after 1 or 2 clips. But I can't help myself. I watch the whole thing every time.

Love it. Keep doing it

It was surprising that on a couple of those plays there was even a runner on third and the opposing team still put on the shift, so when Joey poked the ball down to no man's land the runner could practically walk home. Easiest RBIs ever!

@pabloapostar7275

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. The opposing manager should have just walked JG and kept the third base runner on third base.

@geoffroi-le-Hook

2 жыл бұрын

with no fielder there, the runner on third could take a 45-foot lead and not be picked off

I love this so much!

Great compilation skills

The way he’s been hitting since becoming a Yankee he needs to do this way more if they’re still putting the shift on him

I understand his frustration. He’s more effective when hitting bombs and walking, but unlike other shift victims, give him credit he at least does this

That’s a absolutely breathtaking quote.

Love this!!!

Why is this so difficult for so many big leaguers? Don't ban the shift. Bunt the damn ball more often!

@puckerings

2 жыл бұрын

It's not difficult, it's the opportunity cost. You give up any chance of hitting a home run when you bunt, and a home run is WAY more valuable than a bunt single.

@ohtani2024

2 жыл бұрын

@@puckerings You're ABSOLUTELY WRONG. Bunt against shift means a free base hit. A HR is rare. Baseball is not cricket, it is a dynamic sport, not only batting and scoring.

@kevinmichael4829

2 жыл бұрын

It's about not making outs. Imagine having an on base percentage at 1.000 ! That would be a good player.

like everyone else, I think a hitters job is to "hit 'em where they ain't" how is it that swings are so specialized that a hitter can't adjust to compensate for ANY shift? that kind of specialization is bad for the game

@emeraldgems5898

2 жыл бұрын

Studies have shown, though unclear as to why, that lefties tend to be more pull hitters. Something in the way they swing, I guess. It's not that they suck at hitting in all directions, there's some sort of biological difference in batting lefty. It's rare to see a shift pulled on a righty. I was a switch hitter when I played. Had great range batting righty. Something about batting lefty though, everything was always right-side. I agree it's bad when a player can't utilize all parts of the field, but when such a large portion of players are mechanically unable to go oppo due to some unknown reason, something has to be done. Keeping the shift gives an advantage to righty hitters since they will almost never see a shift, making them more valuable than lefties. Banning the shift makes lefties more valuable than righties since they have an easier time pulling the ball down the right side gaps. The shift hasn't been around too long, and for that, many lefties are still prominent in baseball 1.33:1, whereas the real world disparity is 10:1. So keeping the shift in place for the next 10-15 years, expect the ratio of batters to continue to decrease as righties are preferred over lefties in baseball since lefties will continue to own a habit of pulling and the shift will ensure they can't. The shift is the reason we have this HR or BUST mentality in baseball. If you can't possibly hit a single due to unknown mechanical restraints and the defending team taking advantage of that via the shift, you mind as well try to crush it or strike out trying. So, with respect, it's not a specialization and it's not bad for the game, depending on the side you're on. It's just a lefty habit that is much more common than not and something that will largely limit talented lefties from reaching the majors in the future if a ban doesn't going into effect. If you'd prefer to see righty dominated baseball where 8-9 players on a team are righty, then there isn't an issue here and none of what I said matters. :)

Some smart baseball, about time someone will constantly take advantage of the shift🤙👏👏

"i don't understand how i'm supposed to hit a double or triple when i have six guys standing in the outfield" *bunts a double*

I’ve been preaching laying down a bunt with any shift. They are professional baseball players for Pete’s sake. Everyone of them should be able to bunt in that situation.

@gregrld

2 жыл бұрын

⬆️⬆️ THIS ⬆️⬆️ Learning and perfecting bunting improves your skill set as a batter. I always love seeing a great bunt.

This is why the shift is good!

@LazyD86

2 жыл бұрын

exactly! it's bringing back the bunt! love it.

this is so satisfying to watch. beating the shift w a bunt is the best

Keep doing this. If they want to give free singles by over-shifting just do that.

Wait, Who the fuck told the team to do this shift with a RUNNER ON 3RD BASE? Whoever called that play is hopefully parking cars now.

@Coachlen24

2 жыл бұрын

they were willing to give up that run since they were up 4-1... that run means nothing.. but Gallo getting on base is the tying run... so they didn't want Gallo to reach 1st base.. hence the shift... Gallo does not bunt enough to take the shift off

@jacobs7860

2 жыл бұрын

@@Coachlen24 This is true. In a way he outsmarted them by doing this. But at the end of the day, like you said, he doesn't bunt often enough for anyone to consider guarding against this. I really wonder how many consecutive ABs he would have to square around before teams started to put a guy over there

@yomammamilf1980

2 жыл бұрын

No one holding the guy on at third but it’s the AL so he ain’t stealing home lol

I...freaking ....love it. I hate the shift. I hate the metrics, but I love the small ball.

@KT72273

2 жыл бұрын

In the White Sox 2005 World Championship season, Ozzie Guillen called it 'smart ball' and this is coming from a Cub fan! Even our former 1st baseman Anthony Rizzo can bunt single to the left side! Such a 2022 answer to cry to ban something cause it adversely affects you!

@garrettsteven1963

2 жыл бұрын

@@KT72273 I am not a major league player and want to see the shift banned because it spiel be more fun to watch- doesn’t have anything to do with what the players want just the viewers

As a Phillies fan, I will never ever understand why Ryan Howard wasn't coached to do this. There was obviously a lot of mismanagement here post WS win (esp from the front office), but that always stuck with me - seeing all of that open space to the left and then watching him hit into the shift (or K'ing) every single time was confounding.

*eyes tear up* It’s beautiful

"Don't ban the shift, beat it" Yeah, it's real exciting to watch sluggers bunt. Ban the shift. Two infielders required on either side of second. I'm tired of seeing accidental bloops that get through because the shift pulled a fielder out of his usual position. Besides, when was the last time you were excited about coach telling you to bunt?

@firewoodtime2

2 жыл бұрын

I think the game is about winning. I used to have the second highest average on the team. I never minded bunting.

@russs7574

2 жыл бұрын

Of course, it wouldn't take very much bunting to dissuade teams from even using the shift. And you don't even need to bunt. Just learn to hit the ball to the opposite field, and it will be an automatic double, if not a triple, and defenses will quit shifting. But I suppose that flies beyond your rudimentary understanding of baseball. You must be a Philadelphia sports fan.

@onehand-yusuf7212

2 жыл бұрын

@@firewoodtime2 the game is about drawing eyes. who cares about winning when no one is watching the product

First I can't believe he complained about the shift. How can professional hitters be incapable of hitting the ball anywhere but exactly one angle? Second, congratulations on not jut beating the shift, but mocking it in the process. I hope every time a batter sees a shift, he bunts for a single.

@squirrelydan3

2 жыл бұрын

If he doesn't want them to shift, he should show the bunt early and make them think about it. They'll probably move back over pretty quick.

Love this! Heck with the shift…

Bunting and the shift are both majorly underrated

That quote at the beginning is like if a quarterback said “how am i supposed to throw 60 yard passes when my guy is always triple covered?” Nobody thinks football is boring when a team dinks and dunks their way down the field. Take what the defence gives you

@craigisapunk

2 жыл бұрын

Right? When people talk about banning the shift I think "Should NFL ban the Prevent Defense?"

@bubbagc859

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao terrible analogy…football has constant action, the dink and dunks are more exciting than a deep ball, baseball is a very slow and boring game, remember when the balls were juiced and the MLBs rating skyrocketed…people have already stopped watching cause of the shifts

@testingmysoup5678

2 жыл бұрын

It's pretty boring when a team does that

@garrettsteven1963

2 жыл бұрын

@@bubbagc859 I really don’t see any compelling argument against banning the shift. People defend it because they want players to get more skilled or whatever but it is a FACT that banning the shift creates a better viewing experience with more action. We have seen for YEARS that players will not just “learn to bunt” around a shift

@LennonMarx420

2 жыл бұрын

@@garrettsteven1963 The "learn to bunt" argument kind of misses the whole point, too. I think just about every team in baseball would take a single every time from a power hitter that the defense needs to aggressively shift on. The defense just isn't giving up that much to get past the power guy in the lineup (usually, obviously there are exceptions). Coupled with the fact that power hitters are generally not great bunters, I don't think that's a reasonable solution for this current generation. Now, with players coming up under this system, maybe we start to see power guys that also have trained bunting since they were in little league because of the shift and that could make "just bunt" a better answer, but even just looking at this video the defense just needs to play the 3rd baseman at 3rd and that gets taken away.

Banning the shift is insane to me. It's strategy, banning it would be directly interfering with the game to give an offensive advantage.

@garrettsteven1963

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah… it would be nice to see the offense have an “advantage” so I can actually watch balls in play not grounders straight to infielders deep in left field

The shift? Gallo: yes

You misspelled Brilliantly. Gallo knows exactly what he is doing. Smart shit!

The question really becomes, how do you enforce it? Are fielders going to have to stand inside pre-defined boxes for every at bat? Fielders move on EVERY play. What about when it's bases loaded with 1 out in the ninth and the hitting team is down a run? Are the fielders allowed to cheat in on the infield grass so they can make the throw home easier/faster? Is that ok? Banning the shift is one of the single dumbest things I have ever heard. Think about this....they're talking about changing the entire way baseball fielding is executed because a handful of guys can only hit it to one side of the field. Instead of talking about banning the shift, stop giving guys hundreds of millions of dollars for being so one-dimensional that they can be marginalized simply by the way players move around the field.

@RigelOrionBeta

2 жыл бұрын

Simplest is to force 2 on left side of 2nd, 2 on right side, runners have to be touching infield dirt. You can still shift, just not as drastically. You may need to standardize infield dirt across stadiums, but that's probably the biggest thing you need to enforce. The home plate and 2nd base umpire will be able to tell rather easily when a defender is "offsides", can award automatic balls in cases where they are offsides. I don't see why bringing the infield in would be outlawed. The point is they can't shift drastically to nullify the at bats of lefty pull hitters mostly.

@danielgrabowski5436

2 жыл бұрын

@@RigelOrionBeta And you genuinely don't think that's ridiculous? Maybe pitchers shouldn't be allowed to throw breaking balls to guys who can't hit anything other than a fastball. Again, why are they catering to a handful of players who are the cause of this? They didn't grow up playing baseball being taught to never hit it the other way. The shift only exists because those players are one dimensional. Now every single power hitter is just going to pull the ball. It's a joke.

Ichiiro would bat 600. with these shifts on!

@ethanh4973

2 жыл бұрын

Nobody runs a shift on ichiro lmao

@rsn2012

2 жыл бұрын

Ichiro isn't a one dimensional hacker. They knew better than to shift on him. Top 5 of all time IMHO.

Awesome. This is how I always thought the game would naturally evolve. The game tends to favor lefty hitters and the shift is a valid strategy that should force players to develop their skills and become more well rounded hitters. Banning the shift will only mean that hitting skills can stagnate.

They sound surprised every time he bunts. A man who bunts that much, it shouldn’t surprise you

i hate shifts but same time every other sport makes adjustments. so why cant mlb? so even though i dont like it. i think it should stay, and hitters should get good, bunt, hit opposite side etc. if anything is ruining baseball its the 100mph pitchers.... its either strikeouts or homeruns anymore.

@TheSonofabiscuit

2 жыл бұрын

100 mph pitchers because Tommy John is common, and 5 inning starts are long starts now lol

@Wozrop

2 жыл бұрын

No they don't, other sports have illegal formations, and 3 in the key, and offsides, other sports adjust rules all the time for stuff exactly like this.

@foarfield

2 жыл бұрын

I just don't know if I like the idea that you can't play your defenders wherever you want. I need to understand dead pull hitters more. If shifts were on from little league to the majors for now to eternity, would hitters evolve, or would lefties still just be best served trying to send the ball over the right field fence?

Everyone saying "don't ban the shift" and "I used to bunt all the time in Little League" or whatever need to realize how far batting averages have dropped since the shift. No hits, no base runners, no offense - no fans. Also, strikeouts are up because everyone's trying to launch-angle everything over the shift and/or the fence. Even more fun!

joey gallo learning the forbidden art of "hittin' it where they ain't"

I love this.

Professional hitters complaining makes no sense. You’re a professional, act like it and adjust. Just because you’re a lefty does not mean you need to always pull the ball, learn to hit the other way. Truly is not that difficult. They are leaving HALF the field open, so hit the ball there.

@golfmaniac007

2 жыл бұрын

please tell that to Jarred Kelenic 🤣

@CountDooki99

2 жыл бұрын

Please tell me you've played baseball before, because it's really not that easy to get a hit let alone an oppo.

@golfmaniac007

2 жыл бұрын

@@CountDooki99 have you ever played baseball? its not a batter trying to hit opposite field just for the sake of hitting to opposite but doing with ball of what is pitched to you.....such as an offspeed pitch outside or breaking ball outside. you see kelenic tries to pull an offspeed or break ball low and outside instead of slapping it opposite which is much easier to do then pulling it.

@CountDooki99

2 жыл бұрын

I play baseball for 15 years I know how the game works

@CountDooki99

2 жыл бұрын

@@golfmaniac007 and I was never even talking to you in general I was talking to Miguel

i'm a tad confused? you mean to tell me, that a person getting paid MILLIONS of dollars as a PROFESSIONAL can only hit in one side of the field??? how about, instead of complaining and having to bunt, he learns how to hit on the other side of the field?? how about improving your game instead of expecting the league to change the rules to cover for your weaknesses? what's next? hitters will complain they can't hit enough home runs because the fields are too big?

@duzzytrivia

2 жыл бұрын

shift is always used for people who naturally pull to that side. It's also harder to hit oppo when you're a dominate pull hitter. The shift is dumb and should be replaced. just like running into the catcher was a thing.

@fattman32

2 жыл бұрын

@@duzzytrivia running into the catcher makes sense at least because they are trying to prevent unnecessary injuries, but a dominant pull hitter should be training himself to utilize all the field and becoming more of a threat

@puckerings

2 жыл бұрын

@@duzzytrivia Why is positioning your defence in an optimal way "dumb"? Should teams not get to decide what pitches to throw to a particular batter based on what they know about the pitches he's stronger and weaker against? Should you not be allowed to throw a curveball to a hitter who can't hit a curveball?

@SLURM187

2 жыл бұрын

All that matters is getting on base pleb

@rwwilson21

2 жыл бұрын

IDK if you follow basketball but the shift it's kinda the equivalent of the hack-a-shaq. It's a method where a team, whose behind in the game, purposely fouls a player(who sucks at shooting free throws) and have them shoot free throws. Giving the team whose behind a better chance to catch up. I say it's kinda the equivalent to the shift bc to a dominate pull hitter most of there outs are on their hitting side, so they are setting up shifts on that side. And also saying, "hey, we'll gladly give up a hit if you can hit it to the other side of the diamond. but most likely you won't and it'll just be a free out." The only player who can beat the shift on a regular basis is Freddie Freeman.

Man he’s making this like MUCH easier than it really is. You can tell his hatred of the shift has led to him practicing this a lot; as these are some great bunts. Good on him

This video is awesome

i didn’t know he did this so often. good for him!

I love this...I absolutely hate the shift and this is a great way to get teams to stop

everybody needs to do this.

This was hilarious

LOVE the bunt!

New favorite player

My favorite is the TB pitcher dancing at :44

Love it

I'm all for it! I'd much rather see bunts and base running action than another strikeout, fly ball out or walk.

Wow I never knew he was so good at this

love it

He already has 2 steps toward 1st since he's a lefty. Much more difficult to throw out.

Oh wow who would have thought

so satisfying

That’s “Big Bunt” right thurrrr!!!

And that’s baseball!!! Leave your ego at the door and outsmart the other team.

Wow, almost like there's a whole different half of the field you could just learn to hit the ball to. Isn't that amazing, im glad they're finally figuring it out. I will say some shifts are a little overkill, but that's always with risk, shifts are necessary to the game

@TheBlackWaltz

2 жыл бұрын

Pitchers are throwing faster than ever before, and have more break than ever before. Hitting is harder than ever before, so having control over the contact to change where you hit the ball is also harder than ever.

@johnsilcox8

2 жыл бұрын

It looks like on some of these plays if he learned to bunt it really hard with a slight slug bunt motion, he would get a double out of it if he got the ball a little bit into left field.

Joey Gallo has been with the Rangers longer than I was able to care about baseball. Used to watch him as a teenager.

Gallo said f@#k your shift 😂!

I have about 10 minutes of doing this on the show with cody bellinger .. gawd dang shift lol

What a smart player and a great bunter. I can’t believe more MLB players don’t do this, but most of them are not good at it because the game is so focused on HRs now instead of advancing runners any way possible. It would be very smart for bottom of the order guys especially to “get good” and start doing this

Dude bunts INTO the shift and still gets on base. Epic.

This is what baseball is all about. Love it.

He’s quick too

Joey gallo just proved that theres a counter for everything.

Bunting is a lost art in baseball. Love this.

@gregrld

2 жыл бұрын

⬆️⬆️ THIS ⬆️⬆️ Learning and perfecting bunting improves your skill set as a batter. I always love seeing a great bunt.

I used to love watching baseball for all the strategy that took place. Now it is more just swing for fences no matter what the game situation is. I was at a Tiger game years ago. I believe it was Micky Lolich was pitching for the Tigers. Tigers were leading, bottom of the fourth and a storm was rolling in. Lolich was batting with two strikes, the pitcher wound up, Lolich swung and struck out and sprinted to the dugout as the the pitcher delivered the ball. Yes in that order. Lolich pitched the top of the fifth and retired the side just before the game was called due to rain. The Tigers won because of a very heads up move by Lolich to get the game legal before the rain. Those were the good old days.

Don’t ban it, I love watching gallo bunt

This is great for baseball