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Originally Posted by BBGiovanni
I hate, hate the DH. I would be *elated* to see either of those variations in the NL instead of the extra player AL rule. My personal favorite is home-manager-chooses, but I'm afraid in practice modern managers won't dare to make SPs bat or just be too risk-averse to try it.
And I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE check boxes in OOTP for all of them  |
If the DH was a manager chooses thing, in practice it would likely become a front office chooses. And the front office would probably never want their pitchers batting. Maybe in 1% of cases?
I think the DH for the starting pitcher only is a decent compromise. My only real complaint with it is it would make it a lot more difficult for DHs to make the hall of fame. On the other hand, it already is harder for DHs to make the hall of fame. I expect Edgar and Ortiz will be it, and then no one else that was almost exclusively a DH for a long time.