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Originally Posted by mikev
The DH is a good thing, and everybody who likes the idea of pitchers hitting is wrong.
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In Major League Baseball, yes. I'm not advocating a DH in little league or anything where the pitchers are usually the best players.
If pitchers could hit, and 99% can not, then they should. But since they can't all it does is make the NL game inferior. We don't make quarterbacks play safety. Why make pitchers hit? Because that's how baseball "is supposed to be"? Well, Major League Baseball wasn't supposed to have blacks playing, either.
And yes, I realize that's a tremendous stretch, but I could cite the myriad rule changes that were made in the late-1800s/early 1900s that nobody seems to wish came back. I'm not sure why pitchers hitting is special and those aren't.