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Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower
Mandating the DH permanently because of the circumstances is bullshit, IMHO.
Personally, I don't care for the idea of pitchers hitting because the tenet of the argument why they should is that there should be no specialization in baseball is bullshit too. There's already specialization in baseball where only a handful of guys are truly capable of playing every non-pitching position with defensive competency expected of a major league caliber player and there's already the expectation one or two starters will be offensive liabilities but are too important defensively not to play.
But for over a hundred years almost half of the franchises in the MLB have played without the DH and it doesn't feel right that the BeerVirus forces the rule change upon them.
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About time the NL join the rest of the world.