Changing MLB landscape should raise value of lefty-hitting free agents

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Changing MLB landscape should raise value of lefty-hitting free agents
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Teams are more than ever going to talk themselves into the upside of flawed players such as Cody Bellinger, Michael Conforto and Joey Gallo.

This began with me thinking about lefty hitting. And not just for one reason.

It is a free-agent class in which the best hitter coming from Japan and arguably the three most interesting bounce-back candidates are all left-handed ., notably anti-shift legislation designed to reverse the slide by lefty hitters, in particular.

In a shift-less game would Rizzo have had nine more hits in 2022? If so, it would have been the difference between what he batted and hitting .243, which was the exact major league average.Start doing this kind of math around the league, especially for pull hitters, and will we return to the familiar — lefty hitters as a group outperforming righty hitters ? As recently as 2019, lefties had a collective .765 OPS compared to .753 for righties. Last season, lefties had a .697 OPS to .

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