Thanks to Mark Rickard for the show concept!
With some sense of certainty this will be the last year in MLB in which there
will not be a DH in the National League. This will be negotiated as part of
the upcoming Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Player's Association
and MLB in what promises to be an acrimonious negotiation. No pitcher has
finished the season with a .300 average since 2008 when Micah Owings hit .304.
In general MLB pitchers are lousy hitters and getting lousier. Why? Because it's
hard! And they don't get much practice, and they are discouraged from hitting
once they decide to be a pitcher primarily.
We talk about the best hitting pitchers, and the worst. We also talk about
position players getting into games to pitch which happens more than a handful
of times each season. But going forward after this season, aside from Shohei
Otani, pitchers will pitch and hitters will hit and occasionally take the hill
in a game that does not matter!
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Thu Apr 08 2021
