2014 Most Shifted Players by Jeff Zimmerman December 9, 2014 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.