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Originally Posted by JDOldSchool
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.
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I was only talking about MLB, and I agree with you. I think it's ridiculous to watch pitchers try to hit. Dontrelle Willis, who is a "good" hitting pitcher, has a career .591 OPS.