There's no shift with JD, because he knows how to hit to all fields. It's not the shift that's the elephant in the room; it's the batters not being able to adjust.
Well, there's the human factor to consider. Betts is a great player, but he's not a machine. And sometimes, just sometimes, you have to give the opposing pitchers some credit.
Spud, Mookie is batting .350; his OBP is .437; his slugging percentage is .663, and his OBS is 1.100. Those are splendid numbers. Let me rephrase that; those are Splendid Splinter numbers.