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Projecting the DH for Every National League Team

Jun 16, 2020

Major League Baseball, National League, Opinions & Predictions

If and when a 2020 Major League Baseball season takes place, a universal DH is expected to be implemented. Subsequently, every National League team will add a position player to their lineup. Here is the projec...

Playing Devil’s Advocate on the Universal DH

Jeff J. Snider

Feb 6, 2019

Features, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

I've always had an annoying tendency to look for both sides of an issue. (That sounds like a humblebrag, but I mean it -- I know it's annoying, to others and to myself.) The tendency follows a bit of a bell cur...

The Chicago White Sox Have a DH Problem

Casey Boguslaw

Apr 22, 2016

Chicago White Sox

It’s early in the 2016 season but the designated hitter position is having a rough start. Three of the seventeen worst qualified wRC+ values in the league belong to designated hitters. Two of these are househol...

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Comments On Designated Hitter

Josh Eastern

Jan 25, 2016

Headlines

Monday is the one-year anniversary of Rob Manfred taking over as commissioner of Major League Baseball and has had quite a busy first year in that position. Manfred has had a lot on his plate in his first ye...

Let’s Get Creative with the DH

Joshua Sadlock

Jan 21, 2016

Features, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

Because it's a Thursday in January and there is very little to write about except the possibility of the Washington Nationals possibly spending $100 million or more to sign a fifth outfielder less than two week...

Keep the DH out of the National League

Michael Saltzman

Jan 20, 2016

American League, Major League Baseball, National League, Opinions & Predictions

The designated hitter is being talked about as something that could become permanent in baseball. Instead of just an American League position, it would become a position for every team in baseball. While that i...

DH in the National League? You Can’t Spell Ron Blomberg Without “NL”

Jeff J. Snider

Apr 27, 2015

Features, Injuries, Opinions & Predictions

Over at NBC's Hardball Talk, my friend Craig Calcaterra wrote a piece this weekend entitled, "Pitchers batting is dumb and the DH should be universal." It was injuries to Adam Wainwright and Max Scherzer that g...

Power Rankings: Top 5 Designated Hitters in ’15

Will Gribin

Mar 2, 2015

American League, Opinions & Predictions

We are nearing the end of my 2015 positional rankings. This, the shortest of the series, is one of my favorites. Ranking the DH position is so much harder, due to the fact that there is no defense to consider. ...

Opinion: For Any American League Team, Evan Gattis Makes Sense

Baseball Essential

Nov 22, 2014

Atlanta Braves, National League East, Opinions & Predictions

Ever since Evan Gattis has emerged onto the scene as a part time catcher for the Atlanta Braves in the National League East, we have viewed him as the National League equivalent of Mike Napoli, but with the Bra...

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