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Apr 7, 2022 · The agreement implemented after the MLB lockout had a few notable rule changes to be put into play for 2022, including the long-sought-after universal designated hitter. National League pitchers ...
Feb 20, 2024 · National League Teams Are Still Figuring Out This Whole DH Thing. by Chris Gilligan. February 20, 2024. Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports. The introduction (and then reintroduction) of the designated hitter to the National League wasn’t the smoothest of rollouts. It was first brought about as a safety measure in the chaos of the pandemic ...
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Mar 12, 2022 · PHOENIX - It was an impressive holdout for the National League, which made it nearly 50 years staving off a full-time designated hitter rule that the American League implemented before the 1973 season. “We’ll continue to play by baseball rules,” NL President Chub Feeney famously said back then. Well, the rules have finally changed.
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Mar 12, 2022 · PHOENIX — It was an impressive holdout for the National League, which made it nearly 50 years staving off a full-time designated hitter rule that the American League implemented before the ...
Mar 22, 2022 · National League players and managers are used to it already. National League players and managers are used to it already. It’s time for National League fans to embrace the designated hitter rule. Remember this: All of MLB used designated hitters in all games during the shortened 2020 season. There weren’t too many complaints about it.
Mar 12, 2022 · PHOENIX (AP) — It was an impressive holdout for the National League, which made it nearly 50 years staving off a full-time designated hitter rule that the American League implemented before the ...
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Oct 10, 2022 · The designated hitter also did not, largely speaking, create a new “everyday role” in most teams’ lineups. Only two National League players appeared in at least 100 games as a designated hitter this season: Nelson Cruz of the Nationals and Daniel Vogelbach of the Pirates and Mets.