John Fay

jfay@enquirer.com

The Reds have been burned by playing the pull shift four times this year -- three by Matt Adams of St. Louis and once by Curtis Granderson of the Mets.

"It's like any knee-jerk reaction," Price said, "any time anyone beats the shift, hits the ball where you'd be playing it ... you played them straight up, you'd make that play. We've had a couple of guys who have already done that.

"That being said, I think baseball is a game of percentages and strategy. We feel we have a very good defensive club, but we're trying to utilize the information we have to make ourselves even better defensively.

"You have to qualify it by the plays we're making when we're in a shift position. It's like a lot of things. It's something we have to decide if it works or doesn't."