A designated hitter debate is not something a team necessarily wants, because it usually means the club has too many players that cannot play defense. For the Sox, that certainly applies, as Daniel Palka, Nicky Delmonico and Matt Davidson are, well, terrible in the field. Both the eye-test and analytics confirm that.
But out of the three potential candidates to be the DH, only one hits like a DH, and that is Daniel Palka.
Before we get to why Palka should be getting the majority of the DH at-bats, let’s take a deep dive on why Davidson and Delmonico should draw the short straw.