He wouldn’t even get to field a team considering 99.9% of kids play travel ballYou would field the worst team in the nation with that strategy.
He wouldn’t even get to field a team considering 99.9% of kids play travel ballYou would field the worst team in the nation with that strategy.
Universal DH is long overdue. While I'd rather they hit, universal DH was implemented in the minors years ago and most don't hit in college so by the time a guy reaches the majors he may not have taken a live at bat in 6-7 years. If a SP is lucky he'll get 35 starts a year. At most he'll get 2.25 at bats a start. So you're looking at 80 ABs a year when you haven't hit since high school. That's like putting the last guy on your bench in to hit 3 times a game (2 for the SP and 1 for a PH). So I ask, is it a good thing to have someone get close to 400 ABs hitting .115 with an OPS of .150?
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He wouldn’t even get to field a team considering 99.9% of kids play travel ball
Ages 10-14 100% a racket. 16-18 no it’s not. Even if it was you still couldn’t fill a team like you think you could.Because it's a racket
Thats why so many play travel ball
I singled him out because in '99 he hit .311, and would have been in the top 10 BA players, save that as a pitcher, he didn't get enough ABs to qualify. He was generally a good batter, and was not the hole-in-the-lineup that the pitcher generally is.Pretty much every other pitcher in MLB history says "hi".
I singled him out because in '99 he hit .311, and would have been in the top 10 BA players, save that as a pitcher, he didn't get enough ABs to qualify. He was generally a good batter, and was not the hole-in-the-lineup that the pitcher generally is.
I have never been a fan of the DH. The reason pitchers don't hit well is because they don't care. I am not saying even if they did care, they would hit .300, but for many pitchers its a throwaway thing.
There are certainly exceptions. Greinke for example.I singled him out because in '99 he hit .311, and would have been in the top 10 BA players, save that as a pitcher, he didn't get enough ABs to qualify. He was generally a good batter, and was not the hole-in-the-lineup that the pitcher generally is.
Pretty much every other pitcher in MLB history says "hi".
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