The Designated Hitter in the National League for Major League Baseball

[MoJoe2014]

Thoughts on this? I'm a National League guy, and I like to see the Pitchers bat.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-b...r-to-adding-dhs--maybe-in-2017-194448854.html

 

[ddd]

As I always say when I speak to incoming managers during my youth leagues season, In playoffs, we play good solid legitimate National League Baseball. No DH Bs. That's the way baseball was designed and should be played.

 

[rdhd]

Wasn't The Babe a pitcher? And he could hit like a sunuvagun. Not to mention a number of other, later pitchers who were fairly decent hitters. Maybe just some are so afraid of getting hurt.

 

[trainman3004]

I'm opposed to the DH as I'm a National league guy myself. However, I have always thought having the same game played by different rules to be somewhat unnatural for a lack of a better word LOL. My vote is to abolish the DH but if the National League decides to adopt it then I can live with it if it means all teams play by the same rules.

 

[magic fingers]

Thoughts on this? I'm a National League guy, and I like to see the Pitchers bat.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-b...r-to-adding-dhs--maybe-in-2017-194448854.html

I'm an American League guy. Always have been. I can't stand NL fans "holier than thou" attitude because their pitchers swing a bat(and usually look pretty bad doing it). Plus growing up, I hated Pete Rose, and what he did to Ray Fosse in the All Star game. (I was so happy when my team the O's beat him twice, when he was w/the Reds in '70 and Phils in '83). In the WS, I always root for the American League representative, even if it's the Yankees.

That being said, I hope the NL does NOT adopt the DH. Where does it say both leagues have to play by the same rules. Baseball is probably the most unique American sport - It's the only sport where the defense controls the ball, where there's no clock and where each field has it's own dimensions, and measurements.

Uniformity dilutes passion. I think the fact that the two leagues play by different rules adds to the "quirkiness" of a game where a God like athelete i.e. Michael Jordan couldn't succeed, but human doughnuts like John Kruk and CC Sabathia could excel

 

[magic fingers]

Wasn't The Babe a pitcher? And he could hit like a sunuvagun. Not to mention a number of other, later pitchers who were fairly decent hitters. Maybe just some are so afraid of getting hurt.

For every pitcher that can hit above .200 or connect for an occasional dinger, there's 25-50 who couldn't hit water if they fell out of a boat.

 

[milagros317]

I hate the DH. The AL should abolish it. 😀
I can remember some pitchers who really could hit.
In his best year as a hitter (1965), Don Drysdale batted .300 with 7 HR and 19RBI in just 130 AB.
Don Newcombe did even better in 1955: Big Newk batted .359 with 7 HR and 23RBI in just 117 AB (and OPS 1.028).