DH in SOM? No brainer.
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:53 pm
I've always been a National League fan and historically supported the "pitcher has to hit" approach. In most of baseball history, it's a reasonable norm that I favor. However, not in today's baseball for a lot of reasons (separate story), but that's not my point here. In SOM, it seems there's no reason for pitchers to hit. It offers another platoon possibility, the pitchers are no fun to let hit, it allows ace pitchers to go longer, helps the bullpen pitchers avoid getting lifted for a lackluster, usually .50 or so pinchhitter. And who cares about pinchhitters? If they're that good, make them DH platoons in a DH league. So, just my two cents.