We’ve gone back and forth on this site many times regarding the designated hitter.
I wouldn’t bring it up again — I know how contentious this topic can be — but there’s a proposal written up by national baseball writer Jayson Stark in The Athletic that’s worth considering. It would accomplish two things:
- It would leave some strategy in the game, and
- It still would accomplish the goal of not having pitchers bat.
Stark wrote about this idea that’s apparently being “brainstormed” right now in an article talking about what changes we might see in Major League Baseball by 2030.