[net.sport.baseball] DH Compromise

roger1@ihlpg.UUCP (r. mills) (06/06/85)

How about if we put a limit on the amount of times a player can be a
DH?  For instance, If Dave Kingman can only DH in 40 games, and might
therefore have to actually pick up a glove at some point?

This rule would still remove the freiks, but would keep the extra offense
the DH provides.  If used in this manner, it would allow a manager to
periodically rest all of his players by allowing them to be a DH for
a day.  

I picked 40 as an arbitrary number, but I felt that it would be to much
for a team to carry 4 specific DH'ers.

My $.02.

Roger L. Mills

mcal@ihuxb.UUCP (Mike Clifford) (06/07/85)

> How about if we put a limit on the amount of times a player can be a
> DH?  For instance, If Dave Kingman can only DH in 40 games, and might
> therefore have to actually pick up a glove at some point?
> 
> Roger L. Mills

*** REPLACE THE DH! ***
You're just trying to patch up a kludged job.  Do it right and get rid
of the DH!
Mike Clifford