[dunningrb]

I always play out my games pitch by pitch. I started with Diamond Mind Baseball in 1997 and switched to OOTP with version 12. Like many of you, I’ve managed a huge number of games with and without the DH. I find lots to enjoy about both modes of play, and I appreciate and agree with most of the points made on both sides of this argument. But I voted Traditional with No DH because that’s the original version of baseball. I’ve always felt the DH was a solution to a problem that did not really exist. But if the intent of the rule was to increase offense and do away with “boring” pitcher at-bats, we could accomplish the same thing by simply skipping the pitcher in the lineup and allowing only the eight other position players to bat. To me, this seems to be a more natural alternation of the original version of the game since we do not have to introduce an entirely new rule (Rule 6.10). I think the fact that Earl Weaver found and exploited a loophole in the original DH rule underscores my point.

I am not advocating for this change, by the way. I am simply saying that I prefer this change to the DH rule. It would be neat if OOTP could provide an option to implement this. Perhaps it’s an easy code change. If nothing else, it makes for an interesting ‘what-if’ scenario.