Argue all you want, nobody was better on the Baseball diamond than Ted Williams. The last player to hit at a .400 clip, Teddy Ballgame was also one of the first recipients of the defensive architype that is taking the game by storm today: The Shift.
The data we will be talking about is from FanGraphs, so before moving on, we need to understand how FanGraphs defines a defensive shift.
- Shift - All: This breaks out all shifts, traditional or not-traditional.
- No Shift: This breaks out all non-shifted plays.
- Shift - Traditional: This breaks out all plays where a traditional shift is employed. Generally, this implies there are three infielders to the right of second base.
- Shift - Non Traditional: This breaks out all plays which would not be considered a traditional shift, so basically everything else.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.datasciencedojo.com/p/245acd40-750c-464b-9ded-f7eba1b80800/