2014 Most Shifted Players

I have been asked a few times to list the hitters who where shifted the most in 2014 along with their results. Well, here they are along with a few thoughts.

Hitters who hit into a shift 100 or more times during the 2014 season.

Name	Bats	Hits vs Shift	Batted Balls into Shift	Shift BABIP	No Shift BABIP	BABIP	Diff	XBH% w/ Shift	XBH% w/o Shift	XBH%	Diff
David Ortiz	L	93	369	0.252	0.150	0.251	0.102	6.8%	5.0%	6.6%	0.018
Ryan Howard	L	87	318	0.274	0.467	0.293	-0.193	5.4%	6.7%	5.8%	-0.013
Brian McCann	L	67	311	0.215	0.268	0.226	-0.053	3.9%	7.1%	4.2%	-0.033
Albert Pujols	R	79	271	0.292	0.254	0.271	0.037	6.6%	4.9%	7.6%	0.017
Brandon Moss	L	70	255	0.275	0.268	0.278	0.006	7.1%	7.3%	7.3%	-0.003
Lucas Duda	L	62	245	0.253	0.321	0.292	-0.068	8.2%	7.1%	7.9%	0.010
Mark Teixeira	B	52	238	0.219	0.222	0.228	-0.004	3.8%	5.6%	4.1%	-0.018
Adam LaRoche	L	65	232	0.280	0.317	0.284	-0.037	7.8%	3.3%	6.0%	0.044
Mike Moustakas	L	52	230	0.226	0.214	0.220	0.012	5.7%	7.1%	5.9%	-0.015
Chris Davis	L	53	230	0.230	0.353	0.236	-0.123	6.1%	17.7%	6.6%	-0.116
Matt Adams	L	83	222	0.374	0.333	0.342	0.041	9.9%	10.6%	9.8%	-0.007
Adam Dunn	L	68	221	0.308	0.300	0.296	0.008	8.1%	10.0%	8.0%	-0.019
Anthony Rizzo	L	70	219	0.320	0.300	0.308	0.020	7.8%	6.7%	8.2%	0.011
Carlos Santana	B	59	217	0.272	0.250	0.246	0.022	5.5%	6.8%	6.0%	-0.013
Kyle Seager	L	65	204	0.319	0.244	0.282	0.075	9.3%	6.3%	7.0%	0.030
Victor Martinez	B	67	202	0.332	0.318	0.329	0.014	6.4%	8.4%	7.4%	-0.020
Jose Bautista	R	50	199	0.251	0.323	0.281	-0.072	5.5%	5.1%	6.3%	0.005
Jay Bruce	L	54	189	0.286	0.216	0.263	0.070	7.4%	0.0%	6.7%	0.074
Garrett Jones	L	50	184	0.272	0.292	0.280	-0.020	8.2%	11.2%	9.5%	-0.031
Edwin Encarnacion	R	48	184	0.261	0.209	0.244	0.052	7.6%	5.8%	7.2%	0.018
Curtis Granderson	L	52	183	0.284	0.315	0.269	-0.031	8.7%	8.7%	7.1%	0.000
Pedro Alvarez	L	50	156	0.321	0.222	0.278	0.098	3.9%	7.9%	5.5%	-0.041
Chris Carter	R	45	155	0.290	0.279	0.271	0.012	8.4%	10.1%	8.0%	-0.017
Freddie Freeman	L	44	154	0.286	0.352	0.337	-0.066	7.1%	13.3%	9.8%	-0.061
Adrian Gonzalez	L	45	151	0.298	0.277	0.294	0.021	9.3%	10.2%	9.2%	-0.009
Raul Ibanez	L	27	144	0.188	0.250	0.208	-0.063	6.9%	10.0%	7.1%	-0.031
Evan Longoria	R	36	143	0.252	0.290	0.291	-0.038	4.9%	4.9%	5.9%	0.000
Seth Smith	L	38	142	0.268	0.279	0.307	-0.011	6.3%	6.3%	10.3%	0.000
Alex Avila	L	47	136	0.346	0.333	0.319	0.012	10.3%	11.9%	9.4%	-0.016
Matt Joyce	L	36	135	0.267	0.338	0.318	-0.071	5.9%	14.3%	8.4%	-0.084
Alex Gordon	L	41	132	0.311	0.296	0.303	0.015	4.6%	8.6%	8.2%	-0.040
Colby Rasmus	L	40	129	0.310	0.267	0.304	0.043	10.9%	13.3%	10.6%	-0.025
Josh Hamilton	L	48	129	0.372	0.367	0.348	0.005	13.2%	6.7%	9.8%	0.065
Carlos Beltran	B	28	127	0.221	0.261	0.250	-0.040	8.7%	6.5%	7.6%	0.021
Yoenis Cespedes	R	42	126	0.333	0.304	0.295	0.030	11.9%	10.7%	9.5%	0.012
Oswaldo Arcia	L	41	124	0.331	0.255	0.297	0.075	8.9%	6.4%	9.5%	0.025
Juan Francisco	L	34	120	0.283	0.353	0.301	-0.070	10.8%	11.8%	11.0%	-0.009
Kendrys Morales	B	31	118	0.263	0.250	0.247	0.013	5.9%	8.3%	7.3%	-0.024
Prince Fielder	L	30	108	0.278	0.250	0.284	0.028	9.3%	6.3%	8.2%	0.030
Justin Smoak	B	24	106	0.226	0.270	0.249	-0.044	7.6%	10.8%	7.7%	-0.033
Adam Lind	L	32	106	0.302	0.475	0.380	-0.173	9.4%	13.6%	10.6%	-0.041
Josh Reddick	L	30	104	0.289	0.389	0.305	-0.100	9.6%	7.8%	8.9%	0.018
Ike Davis	L	32	104	0.308	0.232	0.262	0.076	4.8%	5.8%	6.8%	-0.010
Nick Swisher	B	25	100	0.250	0.275	0.271	-0.025	6.0%	8.8%	7.8%	-0.028

Thoughts

• The number of players hitting into a shift over a 100 times has doubled since 2012. The total has gone from from 20 in 2012, to 16 in 2013 to 44 in 2014.

• Some hitters are beginning to make adjustments when facing the shift as Eno notes in an article at Fox Sports.

• Of this 45 hitters, the average difference in BABIP between when they hit into an infield shift and not hitting into one was 9 points worse.