Yanks' Beat The Shift By Burning Old Blueprint
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A rebuilding year has given us a tantalizing progress report on the team’s plans for a new dynasty in which — like the last one — a core of younger players playing side-by-side with the right mix of veterans can bury teams early and mount epic comebacks late with big innings.
Photo of: Steve Sax |
That season, 68.3 percent of the Yankees’ plate appearances came from right-handed hitters, with righties Roberto Kelly, Steve Sax, Jesse Barfield and Alvaro Espinoza leading the club in at-bats. Michael committed to build his offense around on-base skills and what always had been vital to Yankees champs – lefty power to capitalize on the stadium’s dimensions. No single move better defined Michael’s philosophy than what was at the time a much-criticized trade: The impatient, righty-hitting Kelly was dealt to the Reds after the 1992 season for the more deliberate, lefty-swinging Paul O’Neill.
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“In 1993, O’Neill’s first year with the Yankees and the beginning of 25 straight winning seasons, the Yankees got just 49.5 percent of their plate appearances from righties. They were at 39.7 percent for the 2009 champs and opening of a new stadium and – while the MLB average is annually around 57 percent – the Yankees have not been above 49 percent in the past dozen seasons. Until now.
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And with that short right-field porch still sitting out there, good-hitting righties should (and do) find it with relative ease when the shift goes against them. (Looking at you Judge, Holliday and Castro.)
Source: http://bleedingyankeeblue.blogspot.com/2017/05/yanks-beat-shift-by-burning-old.html
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