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Originally Posted by Questdog
No DH....just no DH.
It is artificial and contrived. If you are hell-bent on not having pitchers hit (dunno why), just skipping their spot in the order would be more natural. And if the AL had never adopted the DH, none of the other leagues in the world would have. So, killing it there may kill it everywhere eventually.
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I tend to think that the DH was inevitable. Pitchers in baseball have, in general, been the weakest hitter on the team since the early 20th century. Since then pitchers only became more and more specialized. After all, it's not like Charlie Finley came up with the idea by himself. Nor was the '69-'73 period the first time it was proposed.
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