Ned Yost would like to see defensive shifts outlawed in major leagues

Major League Baseball: Kansas City Royals

Put Ned Yost in baseball’s anti-defensive shift camp.

The topic arose from a recent report affirming that baseball was on pace to have the fewest singles in a season, and Yost had his reason.

“It’s a product of the shift in my mind, more than anything else,” Yost said. “It’s harder to hit singles. You either go the other way or find a crease, which is increasingly more difficult than it’s ever been.