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In college baseball, NCAA rules [88] state that the designated hitter must hit for the pitcher, but in many instances the pitcher is also a good hitter, and the coach may elect to let the pitcher bat in the lineup. If the pitcher opts to bat for himself, he is treated as two separate positions – a pitcher and a designated hitter (abbreviated ...
The designated hitter in both leagues. The playoffs expand from 10 to 12 teams. Of the three division champions in each league, the two with the best record get a first-round bye, automatically ...
MLB bringing extra-innings ghost runner back. In addition to the Ohtani rule, the league and union struck a deal on a few temporary measures for the 2022 season.
The 2022 season ended with the lowest league-wide batting average since 1968, the Year of the Pitcher — even though 2022 was the first year of the universal designated hitter and the year after ...
MLB announced a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) in 2019, intended to be effective in the 2020 season, that included restrictions on position players pitching. Each team designates players as either "position players" or "pitchers" before the start of the season, and that ...
It can also be used by an AL team playing on the road during interleague play or the World Series, because MLB rules call for the rules of the home team to be used when teams from different leagues meet (so there is no DH when the NL team is the home team). As of the 2022 CBA, MLB has implemented a universal designated hitter, eliminating the ...
One of baseball's oldest arguments is coming to a head. With the designated hitter finally in place in both leagues in 2020, should it stay beyond this season?
Many leagues allow designated hitters, notably Major League Baseball's American League (which instituted the Designated Hitter in 1973 to boost offensive output). A designated hitter (or DH) is a player whose sole purpose is to hit when it would normally be the pitcher's turn (or, in some leagues, if the pitcher is a good batter, another weaker ...