Mixed feeling honestly. Don’t h8 me.
I HATE IT!
I recall when Seattle’s Edgar Martinez was up for the HoF. Many ballots went by.
The rub was a DH isn’t a real player as he only bats and seldom plays a position.
Now the DH will be the norm? (I prefer the NL style, honestly)
Seriously? WGAF. Fans sit on their ass and pay the money. Dumbases one and all. MLB Baseball Hall Of Shitz.
Three true outcomes, Moneyball and universal DH all have destroyed baseball.
ping
Imagine MLB without moments like this one. I watched this entire game, July 4, 1985. Over 6 hours, 19 innings. The fireworks delayed until 4am but the moment of the night belonged to Rick Camp, even in a losing effort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVpjWNfnHww
Get rid of the DH
Bad.
No DH, runner on 2nd if a game goes too long, 7 inning 2nd game in a double header, automatic walks etc. All of these things and Sabremetrics have ruined the game.
what about drug testing?....there is nothing about drug testing.....
20 years ago I might have cared about this but those days are long gone. Reading about it here is a sideshow amusement. Worth a passing glance so if I somehow stumble across a NL game in the future I won’t be shocked at seeing the DH. The free agent compensation thingy is less than nothing to me. That’s inside baseball stuff I again stopped wondering about long ago.
Are they still kneeling?
48 year run for pitchers having to bat? Thought it was always the rule. The dh was the aberration.
Think I’ll go exercise and work on my health instead of caring about mlb.
I’m bummed. Max Fried is one of the best hitting pitchers in baseball, even had a walkoff win as a DH
“The move ends the National League’s 48-year run that forced pitchers to take at-bats.”
Funny, it was 48 years ago that I stopped watching baseball.
And by the way, why even have a DH if you are going to do that crap. Just go to an 8-man batting rotation.
The move ends the National League’s 48-year run that forced pitchers to take at-bats.
A. No one forced the pitchers to hit.
B. Prior to 1973 neither the American nor the National league allowed a designated hitter. I think to the concept was totally foreign to baseball. Further research notes that “The designated hitter idea was raised by Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack in 1906 though he was not the first to propose it”. Nothing happened about it until the late 1960s
There are nine players on a baseball team not ten. There I said it.
The DH has always been a bad idea. Pitchers that could hit were a plus.