Baseball players are creatures of habit.
And for most major league infielders, defensive shifts have never been a part of their routine. But in 2015, the Colorado Rockies are challenging their infield -- dubbed by Purple Row community member Drew Baker as the "Coors Shield" by virtue of being regularly spectacular -- to change their habits and embrace a new wrinkle: the shift.
"We had a meeting about it early," says two-time gold glove third baseman Nolan Arenado. "Some guys were comfortable with it and some guys weren't, but that's why we had the meeting and it was important to have it.