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Originally Posted by mr. tegu
To me Gordon seems to have been victimized by the shift more than most. He has always pulled a lot of balls to the right side. In 2014 his BABIP for ground balls was .245. This season it is .172. In 2014 he hit .266, right along with his career average. If he was closer to that 2014 ground ball average, he would probably be batting a good 50 points better right now at least.
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Gordon's biggest problem is that he is stubbornly sticking to the same approach despite team's pitching specifically to defeat it.
He refuses to make adjustments. He needs to go back to a more opposite field-driven swing path, like he did in 2011.
Over the past few years, he has become so pull happy. Much more similar to his bad approach when he came up.
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