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The universal DH is here to stay. As a fan of baseball in the National League, I always liked the strategy of working around a pitcher in the batting order, but as times have changed and the ...
As teams continue fighting for playoff positioning, Yardbarker's MLB writers took a swing at identifying where each club ...
It was the sort of baseball game that makes you wonder how anyone managed to even paint the foul lines straight.
In a game the O’s were on the brink of losing multiple times, Gunnar’s hot bat propelled the Birds to a hard-fought victory.
By the end of the White Sox seesawing 5-4 loss in 11 innings on Saturday to the Rangers at Globe Life Field, Chicago's bench was empty, the bullpen was down to one pitcher and manager Will Venable’s ...
“From that summer on, I wanted to play every day, I wanted the bat in my hands.” Back in his playing days, in that bygone era before the universal DH, CC Sabathia relished his scant opportunities to ...
The universal DH, however, did come at an aesthetic cost, and that was the loss of the be-jacketed pitcher on basepaths. Opinions will vary on what is so appealing about it.
They called it “a productive conversation” and Devers continued his raking ways as a pure DH, hitting .272/.401/.504 at age-28 with a league-best 56 walks to go with a 155 OPS+ in 73 games.
Even most position players can now wiggle their way up to the MLB roster thanks to the universal DH. Pitching is the place where the Mets would make their next major promotion.
Eric Samulski breaks down the impacts of Kerry Carpenter's injury for the Detroit Tigers, highlighting which players fan can ...