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Originally Posted by DAL 9000
Is that because you really, really enjoy watching pitchers hit in the regular season? I mean, are you even old enough to remember the days when both leagues had no DH? If not, is it just an inherited prejudice, or what?
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DH's were added to create more offense by rulemakers who didn't seem to understand the reasons there were no offense (and didn't realize that those reasons were already removed in the 1969 rule changes). This is the only positive aspect of the DH.
Some negative aspects of the DH are:
1. The need for ridiculous brushback/beanball/mound-charging rules. Without the DH, the self-policing balance that existed for 100 years between pitchers would still be in place, and pitchers could back guys off the plate and eliminate most of the opposite field homeruns that are so common now. This is one of the inadvertant pro-offense changes made by the DH rule.
2. Old fat guys hanging on for 10 years after they're no longer good athletes.
3. Bench and bullpen strategy. Not as big of a deal as most anti-DH people argue, but still lacking.
4. The fact that it was instituted to create more offense, and the last thing baseball has needed for the past 35 years is more offense.
Jason