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The best part of the game - love or hate the DH, you can decide how you want your universe to go. For me, playing with a DH team vs a non-DH team, it's a lot easier in roster construction to play with the DH. And while I do agree that there's more strategy in the non-DH game, sometimes I don't want that strategy. I mean, when I have the hotshot young 1B coming up behind my All-Star current veteran, I hate to be in an NL-league where now I have to trade one of them.
MLB within the next 5-10 years will switch to both leagues having a DH. At some point they'll bring up the debate, and the vast majority of NL teams will vote in favour. Just to be able to hide a guy whose defense has fallen is a big, big edge for them. And having that roster spot for flexibility - don't you think the Dodgers would love to have been able to throw Kemp or Ethier at DH last season?
It's the future of the game, and we'll have to accept it. Doesn't mean you have to like it, but it will be the reality of all of baseball sometime in the next few years.
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