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Why have a DH? If you don’t want the pitcher to hit, remove him from the lineup. Just use 8 hitters. The big guys would come up more often.

That would probably be a good compromise. But the original game, you had 9 players so all had to bat. No exceptions. Even with the DH rule, or 8 hitters, old timers like USA know that this is not baseball like it's meant to be played.

Why not exempt the catcher too? Or use a designated hitter in place of the catcher?

But the original game, you had 9 players so all had to bat. No exceptions. Even with the DH rule, or 8 hitters, old timers like USA know that this is not baseball like it's meant to be played.

Major League Baseball could bring back a few things to make the game played the way it was meant to be:

Bring back “soaking,” “patching,” or “plugging" as it was known, where outfielders could put out base runners by hitting them with the ball.

Bring back the spitball which wasn't banned until 1920 (and grandfathered until 1934 for spitballers in the league when the ban was implemented).

Remove any restrictions about the use of performance enhancing drugs because they were not part of the early rules.