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When Teddy Ballgame was coaching OTHERS, he would tell them to hit the ball right back at the pitcher ... which is essentially the point you're making.  "The pull will take care of itself," he'd say.
Hitting the ball at the pitcher, the margin for error is greatest in both directions, of course.  When your timing is messed up, up-the-middle gets back the most simple timing.
Other-way allows the ball deeper in the zone, so yeah.
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Ted himself in the box, that's another subject :- )   They never THOUGHT of shifting Junior the way they shifted Ted.
They'd put three guys at the 2B's position, and play the 3B at short, and Ted would try to go to LF and literally could not.  "I'm trying!," he'd wail.  "I just can't do it!"
It's kind of like Larry Bird going to a TV commercial and being asked to miss a shot, and needing five shots before it doesn't go in.  He's so hard-wired that...