Dodgers News: Andrew Friedman Talks About Changes Coming for LA with Shift Restriction

Dodgers fans need to be fully ready for a different looking brand of baseball this coming regular season.

A bevy of rule changes have been implemented for the upcoming MLB season. Of course, we’ve already seen them at play this spring, but things will be different when the games count during the regular season. By now you’ve heard plenty about the pitch clock and have probably been annoyed by an automatic ball or strike affecting a real baseball outcome. But where the Dodgers will be most affected by the new rules and limitations coming is in the restrictions on defensive alignment.

Or the shift ban.

As Tom Verducci noted in a great article on Sports Illustrated (check it out here), the…