(02-16-2021 10:49 AM)stever20 Wrote:  

(02-16-2021 10:45 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(02-08-2021 01:30 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(02-08-2021 01:12 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(02-08-2021 10:20 AM)stever20 Wrote:  saw this column https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_...d-playoffs

But increasingly, teams have come to view the injuries incurred by pitchers while hitting or running the bases as a stupid waste of assets, in the same way the lords of the sport came to view catcher-collision injuries as a colossal waste of resources.

MLB has been trying to trade the universal DH to the union in return for expanded playoffs, but the MLBPA has viewed that proposal as being of relatively little value. The union could look, instead, for some kind of financial cut of postseason run in return for expanded playoffs.

How many Dodgers starters will be making over $20 million in 2021? At least 3, right? Of course you don't want those guys to pull a hamstring running out a ground ball, or get injured by an HBP, or whatever. Even teams that don't spend like the Dodgers don't want to lose a starter, in fact it's more critical for any NL team that doesn't have much depth.

The MLBPA is right about the DH. It's more valuable to management than to 99% of the players in the union, so let management just make it universal and don't make concessions in exchange.

Yeah 3 and then in a lot of ways Buehler is just as valuable.

I told someone on another board- I think we're more likely to see DH in NL in 2021 than we are to see pitchers batting in 2022.

It sucks, but universal DH was always going to be the future. I disagree with Wedge though, if your the owners I don't think you should just give it away, but I don't know what concession you could trade for it.

The problem is the owners want it pretty much just as much as the players.

Think it's going to be really interesting to see here in the next few weeks if MLB goes ahead and does the DH for free. The time to watch would be in spring training with pitchers starting to bat (first 2 weeks or so they don't).

If that is case then you're correct. But that begs the question of why it's taken so long to implement the DH in the NL? The owners desire to keep pitchers off the bases didn't come up in 2020.