By Brian Joura
There were several articles written last year discussing Jeff McNeil‘s results when pulling the ball. If you don’t want to click on the links, the main takeaway is that the shift didn’t affect McNeil as much as conventional wisdom would have you believe, at least from a raw number of balls hit to the pull side, straight away and opposite field.
Instead, what happened is that pitchers were busting McNeil inside and too many of his pulled balls were resulting in ground outs to the right side. But then he started to pull the ball in the air and his season turned around.
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