Get rid of the silly Designated Hitter.
And while you’re at it, get rid of inter league play.
“Get rid of the silly Designated Hitter.
And while you’re at it, get rid of inter league play.”
I agree.
Both, like homosexuality, are unnatural acts.
If they were smart, they would play fewer regular season games, back to say 150 per year.
And yes, inter-league play was harmful. Baseball was special, when the only time AL and NL got together was Allatars and World Series.
Then to have one league, one team dominate; makes baseball predictable and boring.
And while you're at it, get rid of inter league play.
If they adopted the second of your ideas it would be essential to adopt the first. Otherwise the National League would have a huge advantage in the World Series.....American League pitchers would not have a clue.
I agree on both counts, but the Players Association will never allow the DH to go away (too highly paid) and with 15 teams in a league, you have to have interleague play so everyone plays every day.
The obvious solution is to expand the rosters to 28 (with 25 dressing, taking a page from the NHL) and to add two teams. While the Players Association would lose 14 highly-paid regular DHs, they'd gain 16 new regulars, 10 new starting pitchers, 2 new closers, additional bench players, and three extra slots per team.
The other advantage is that you could break each league into four four-team divisions and you would not need to have wild cards. Division winners could fill 4 playoff slots.
I agree with both ideas. They’re bad for baseball.
And go back to rotating home field for the World Series, not depending on the All-Star Game.