Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred told the collective media Thursday that the league and Players Association have agreed to a universal DH, seemingly one of the few areas that the two sides have found common ground.
It should be noted that the owners locked the players out on Dec. 1, and no new collective bargaining agreement has been reached to end the work stoppage. There may be some things that MLBPA and the MLBPA have verbally agreed to, but until there is a new collective bargaining agreement, nothing is official.
But the sport has been trending in this direction for at least five years now, and while there are quite a few bridges to gap still, it would be shocking if there isn’t a universal DH moving forward.