I like some of the ideas here. I could live with a NL DH (grudgingly) but I don't like the runner on 2nd thing for extra innings. The 3 batter minimum for pitchers is good.
No! How about we eliminate it for the AL instead of screwing up the NL.
The AL isn't going to eliminate the DH. The PA would have a cow.
Having a 3 hitter minimum for a pitcher is as dumb an idea I've ever heard. Especially if it is done to "speed up the game." How about eliminate all the time between innings. You're going to accept screwing with a managers strategy in an effort to speed the game up before actually speeding the game up because the alternate will cost MLB money? I call BS. Also, what happens when the first guy a reliever gets results in the innings final out. Does he now have to start the next inning?
No, leave the managers ability to manage the game the way he see's fit, in the hands of the manager. The DH has already turned the AL into a softball game. Let's not turn MLB into little league.
“True terror is waking up one morning and discovering your high school class is running the country.” —Kurt Vonnegut
The writing has been on the wall ever since Interleague Play was started that eventually the NL would adopt the DH. It is going to happen, I doubt in 2019 though.
Unlike most, I like the DH. Nothing more boring than watching most pitchers flail at the ball. (.115?)
I like offense and the DH works. The Al scores more runs per game than the NL. Also extends the career of some older sluggers.
Don't care for the runner on 2nd. I also wonder about rewarding good teams in the draft. Won't that create more of a talent/performance gap between the good teams and bad?
Those that don't like the DH complain about the loss of strategy. Wouldn't the three batter minimum do away with a lot of strategy?
The AL isn't going to eliminate the DH. The PA would have a cow.
Having a 3 hitter minimum for a pitcher is as dumb an idea I've ever heard. Especially if it is done to "speed up the game." How about eliminate all the time between innings. You're going to accept screwing with a managers strategy in an effort to speed the game up before actually speeding the game up because the alternate will cost MLB money? I call BS. Also, what happens when the first guy a reliever gets results in the innings final out. Does he now have to start the next inning?
No, leave the managers ability to manage the game the way he see's fit, in the hands of the manager. The DH has already turned the AL into a softball game. Let's not turn MLB into little league.
If they want to speed up the game, then limit the incoming reliever to 1 or 2 pitches on the game mound to find his landing spot instead of 6 or 7. He's been throwing for 10 minutes, he's warm. The mound to plate distance is the same.
The 3 hitter minimum will never fly IMO. Managers are too lefty/righty matchup conscious. If the team at bat has a guy on the bench who hits the incoming reliever well then they have the advantage if the pitching team brings in a guy who has to face 3 and the hitter would bat 2nd.
Im not a fan of universal DH, but Id take that over the 3 batter min bullsh*t. Do we really need to dumb the game down to the point managers become little more than a decoration?
Here is the best way to speed up the game: Throw strikes. I remember guys like Gibson and Jenkins; they took the ball and threw it over the plate. If someone hit it they relied on their fielders to handle it. None of this nibblin', squibblin', sneak one by B.S.
“The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.”
-- Al McGuire
Some things are so self-evidently wrong they need no explanation. The DH in the NL is one of them.
Go Dawgs!
The DH in baseball is the equivalent of having a designated freethrow shooter in basketball. Typically the best pitchers on youths teams are the best athletes...including hitting. Don Newcomb just past away. He had about a .275 career average, was used as a pinch hitter, and hit .300 a few years. Instead of sitting around the bullpen, get 'em in the batting cage.
“The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.”
-- Al McGuire
