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Absolutely not. The DH takes away all the strategy involved in deciding whether to send up a pinch hitter, and hand the ball to your bullpen or keep the pitcher in the game at the cost of having him bat. There's further strategy when it comes to making a pitching change in the middle of an inning because the manager has to be mindful of whether the pitcher is due up to bat in the next half inning. Wouldn't want to put in a reliever only to have to pinch hit for him immediately afterwards, so instead the manager has to execute a double switch. In other words, swap the new pitcher for a position player who is not due to bat soon, then swap his position with the previous pitcher, before finally subbing the previous pitcher for a new position player to bat in the upcoming number 9 hole. It's a technical substitution move that's completely absent from the AL game.

Questions for proponents of the DH...

1) Why not have a Designated Runner for catchers? Catchers can't run for shit and we also can't have them being stranded on base at the end of the inning when they should be in the dugout getting suited up for the next inning.

2) Why not just bat an 8 man lineup? If the issue is the fact that pitchers simply can't hit then why even bat a lineup of 9 hitters anyway? No reason to give more at-bats to those number 9 hitters when we can give more at-bats to those 1-2-3-4-5 hitters.

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