Allan was hit by a Randy Johnson fastball for uttering:
 AJ> Paul Molitor has said many times that without the DH he wouldn't be
 AJ> playing baseball anymore.
So, Paul Molitor doesn't think he could do it but he probably could. I'm sure 
his biggest concerns would be injury and not how he would measure up to the 
rest of the players in the NL.
 AJ> In the NL, you put your best 9 on the field.  In the AL, you put your
 AJ> best 10.  How can that not be an advantage?
Baloney. The NL puts players at first, right and left field that would be DH 
material in the AL.
 AJ>   If the DH were a better defensive player than one of the starters,
 AJ> wouldn't he be on the field?
If there was NO DH in the AL, you bet your butt he would be. He'd be playing 
first, right or left field just like other Bozos in the NL.
 AJ> don't think so.  If you move the DH to 1st, in most cases you weaken
 AJ> the defensive strength of the team.
Puhleeze. The NL has been doing it for years.
 AJ> baseball.  Living in an AL town I don't see many NL games, but the few
 AJ> games I saw this year - mostly the Expos - included a number of hits -
 AJ> not bunts - by pitchers.  I don't know what the stats on this are but
 AJ> I suspect they would be surprising.
For you. NL pitchers accounted for 55.6% of all sacrifice hits. NO OTHER 
POSITION IN BASEBALL accounted for that high of a percentage of ANY offensive 
stat. When you remove SH and SF from pitchers, you'll see that AL hitters 
accounted for 111 and 121 more in each category than their NL counterparts. 
NL pitchers are called on to bunt because that's about all that they can do 
without hurting their team. A number nine hitter in the AL will be asked to 
hit away FAR MORE OFTEN than a pitcher in the NL. NL pundits try to bring up 
the double-switch but that's merely a ploy to hide the pitcher away from the 
opposing team and is a bare-faced admission that NL managers don't believe in 
their pitcher's ability to get a hit when it counts. That's not strategy, 
it's punting on 4th down and goes under the category of rote.
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