Banning or limiting defensive shifts would be an effort to restore Major League Baseball to how it was played before offense was suffocated by analytics, according to baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred. Manfred said MLB was considering having umpires explain video review decisions to fans at ballparks over the public-address system, similar to the procedure in the NFL. It makes the game look like what it looked like when I was 12 years old," he said. Management has the right to change playing rules with an agreement with the union, or MLB can implement changes unilaterally with one year of advance notice. "As a matter of fact, we were really scared that it was going to look very, very differently.

Source: Fox News July 13, 2021 20:15 UTC