My position has always been the same: no DH for either league.
It’s part of the game right from Little League, it should stay that way.
No DH. Ever. If the AL wants to start playing baseball again, we welcome them back. There is no strategy whatsoever in the AL game. Far from being more exciting, it’s boring.
no DH. no artificial turf. no wild card. no unbalanced schedule. no interleague play.
better idea for the NL...
every 9th batting spot is an automatic out.
would speed up the game
The DH rule sucks. If MLB wants to sit the pitcher out, why not simply use an 8-man hitting rotation for both leagues?
Baseball wil never be whole again until the Dodgers return to Brooklyn.
All that hitting sure screwed up Babe Ruth’s pitching career.
All that hitting sure screwed up Babe Ruth’s pitching career.
No, no DH.
National league is more exciting.
To DH, or not to DH?
Personally, I don’t care. BUT.... both leagues need to be the same.
Scherzer used to be pretty mediocre but worked on his game and has been lights out the past couple of seasons.
His logic is unsound though, if you’re gonna have a DH for the pitcher why not just DH for every other lousy hitter on the team?
I’ve always hated the DH. However, as an Astros fan, I’m stuck with it now because the Astros were forced to move to the AL as condition of selling the team. I miss the strategy that used to be part of the game when it came time to make the decision to pinch-hit or not. Besides, with both of the Astros’ first basement hitting below .200, they are the ones who need a DH. A pitcher could hit as well.
Braves pitcher Tony Cloninger is only player to hit 2 grand slams in same game. Missed a third by 1 foot. 9 RBI’s.
#1 - Owners and media want offense.
#2 - Players want an extra higher-paid spot on the roster instead of a minimum salary guy.
Almost no one else matters as long as revenue keeps coming in.
I agree. No DH for either. I also like the comment of why don’t we have an offense and defense team in baseball like football....that would be interesting.
Having watched five decades in a AL city and then three years in a NL city, I am ready to say that like the French Enlightenment, the DH is a failed theory of the game.
The basic problem is that pitchers don't pitch every day the way most players can (theoretically) play every game in a 162-game season. As a result, any pitcher in high school and college who develops as a solid hitter is going to face a choice between pitching every fifth or sixth day, or playing a regular position every day. This is exactly how Babe Ruth ended up migrating from a star pitcher to an everyday outfielder back in his early years with the Red Sox.
I can see why fans like the strategy of the NL game, but baseball should not be played in such a way that a manager regularly faces a dilemma in the later innings: whether or not to pinch-hit for a starting pitcher who is pitching well but is an awful hitter. To me, the appeal of the DH isn't that it promotes more offense, but that it takes this idiotic element out of the game.
wow, this is a never ending debate isn’t it?
Sort of like how guys of a certain age, who watched Gilligan’s Island, would debate : Ginger or Mary Anne.
No DH! It’s a team sport. If you’re on the team, you take a turn at bat just like everyone else. No prima donnas.
No DH in the NL. Wish they would stop trying to get the NL to accept the DH.