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Originally Posted by chucksabr

It's not anything like a "far cry". If your choice is fairly clear as to who your best hitter on the bench is at this moment, you push the button and get him up there. You're not wringing your hands over which of four or five guy on the bench is the best option, which is even more limited given platoon considerations. I mean, come on, you need a run, goddammit! Get your best hitter up there!



You're right in that if your P is down 1-0 in the seventh and there's a DH in the game, you don't have to bat for P. In that case, even pushing a button is "more strategic" than not having a decision to make at all. I would counter only that merely being put into a situation in which a push-button decision will be made is not worth waxing rhapsodic about, as so many DH opponents seem to do; and that even if this is one situation where the NL has a strategic component where the AL does not, there are other situations in which the strategic consideration in the AL is more varied and interesting (i.e., "more strategic") than the same consideration in the NL, for example, constructing batting orders.

And round and round we go. No sense in discussing any further.