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Originally Posted by Airdrop01
Who doesn't enjoy watching pitchers "hit." Oh. I know. Adam Wainwright.
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Actually, Wainwright was vociferous about saying that it was stupid to use his injury to advocate for the DH, that he could have injured himself in any number of equally freaky ways, including carrying his daughter up the stairs at home. He's also fairly famous for being a good hitter, at least before his 2011 injury; in his first full season (2007), he hit .290/.323/.387, and his career OPS is still over .500. The 0-for-10 this year is aberrational, not representative. In fact, IIRC, it was Wainwright who gave LaRussa the impetus to start hitting the pitcher 8th; he was clearly having a better year at the plate than Adam Kennedy (.572 OPS in '07) and so LaRussa started flipping them and then Tony began to see the logic in hitting the pitcher 8th, no matter whom.
Max Scherzer, OTOH, did whimper a bit about how perhaps the DH could protect his delicate little pitcher-body…and then was promptly shamed by his fellow players into walking those comments back. Indeed, I believe it was Adam Wainwright who noted that if Scherzer liked the DH so much, there was a perfectly good offer from the Tigers that he left on the table…