It would depend on where the 'slop' is being created at...

If its is coming from the shifter tower, than yes. But if its from the shift rail bushings in the transmission, no.

On my puke-out, I wanted to run a short throw on it for the same reason. But I pulled my shifter out and found out the slop is in the shift rails. So I threw the stock one back on and put a t-handle on it for the complete lack of cool factor.