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El Supremo

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3. So far this year:

Reply to Auggie (Reply #1)

Thu May 10, 2012, 02:08 PM

May 2012

Pitchers are batting .120
All players are batting .249
DHs are batting .263

http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/batting/split/77

Don't tell me this is not a good reason to have the DH.
Strategy to avoid a bad situation (pitchers batting) is not strategy. It's just having to cover a bad contingency.

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I see PITCHER Tim Lincecum had a HIT and an RBI Auggie May 2012 #1

Opposition to the DH, of course, is not about the pitchers who can hit Jack Rabbit May 2012 #2

So far this year: El Supremo May 2012 #3

That is not a good reason to have the DH Jack Rabbit May 2012 #4

What is strategy? El Supremo May 2012 #5

You conveniently omitted pinch hitting for a lesser hitter Jack Rabbit May 2012 #7

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. El Supremo May 2012 #9

I'll take that as "to be continued . . . " Jack Rabbit May 2012 #10

Batting average is not a fair comparison. El Supremo May 2012 #6

Keep digging a hole for yourself, my good man Jack Rabbit May 2012 #8