With a combined 23,998 shifts so far in 2017, this season's total has far exceeded the shift totals for any season prior to 2016. However, the projected 2017 shift total does not look like it will surpass the approximately 28,000 total shifts tracked in 2016. So what’s causing this stagnation? To best understand this question it’s important to consider that each team came to its own conclusion on when to make shifting a priority. A number of teams took the shifting plunge prior to the 2013 season and thus became "first wave" shift adopters. This group includes teams such as the Astros, Pirates, Rays, Orioles. These teams continue to remain at the top of the shifting leaderboard in 2017, albeit with some teams slightly off of the last year's astronomic pace.