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From: djvh@drutx.UUCP (VanHandelDJ)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: RE: the DH
Message-ID: <2731@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-May-85 20:06:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 20:06:33 1985
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>       Another gripe  I have with the DH is that it will warp
>      records. A DH can play longer than someone who doesn't have
>      or didn't have the benefit.

	 . . . and play more innings each year he plays.

	More than that, having a good hitter bat in the middle of the
	order gives the hitter's batting around him a chance to get
	more runs and RBI's.  The batter ahead of the DH gets better
	pitches to hit than he otherwise would, as does the #8 hitter.
	
>      Wouldn't it be great to have a Designated Free Throw
>      Shooter in basketball? This guy would shoot Free Throws for
>      your weakest shooter.

	A rule like that would have (unfairly) made George McGinnis much more
	valuable.


						Dave Van Handel