FACT: the lower your expectations the worse your results. If the MLB owners and managers turned to the pitchers and said: there’s simply no excuse for you guys to suck at hitting, learn it or you’re out. Baseball has decided they’re OK with pitchers being pathetic at half the game, and so they are.
Recal Koufax as being a terrible hitter early in his career. He improved signifantly in the early 60’s. He was RH hitter, got hit on the left arm more than a few times, then switched to batting Left handed later in his carrer to protect his pitching arm. In a year or 2 he was a decent LH hitter.
The organizations are not lowering their expectations of their pitchers. The contrary FACT is that an aditional thirty minutes minutes spent on the fine points of holding runners, changing speeds, working on a breaking pitch, developing deception in their delivery, etc., etc. will be more productive to their team than spending another thirty minutes at batting practice or another hitting drill.
One would think, though, that the SOBs could at least learn how to bunt!!!