Castor76
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One of the complaints you hear about baseball is how few times the best players in a line up can get an actual chance to affect the game, especially later in the game. This is due to the fact that you have 9 players on the field and you have to go through the line up to get back to the top. What if everybody didn't have to have an PA? We already changed the game to allow one player to hit for a position player, typically a pitcher. What if with each game two positions were designated "defense only" and the lineup had 6 position players and the DH?
Does it destroy the game as we know it today? Absolutely. Would anybody but pitchers, purists, and agents for defense first players really mind? I don't know. What it would do is really increase offense and get the top players more PAs. Teams average around 5800 PAs last season. That would put average PA per hitter going from 640ish to 825ish if not more. It would average out to just over one more PA per hitter per game.
So, on a scale of "It's something to think about" to "You should die horribly just for thinking this", what do you think?
Does it destroy the game as we know it today? Absolutely. Would anybody but pitchers, purists, and agents for defense first players really mind? I don't know. What it would do is really increase offense and get the top players more PAs. Teams average around 5800 PAs last season. That would put average PA per hitter going from 640ish to 825ish if not more. It would average out to just over one more PA per hitter per game.
So, on a scale of "It's something to think about" to "You should die horribly just for thinking this", what do you think?