EG>  AJ> reserved for aging players with power who would have retired in the
EG>  AJ> past and young players with no defensive skills who wouldn't be 
playing
EG>  AJ> baseball without it.
EG> 
EG> You obviously don't remember that Eddie Murray, hardly a
EG> liability, spent his first year as a DH (Lee May and Murray traded
EG> places in 1978). Jim Rice was a DH early in his career because Yaz,
EG> Lynn and Evans were patrolling the outfield. 
You have a point.  Sometimes a young player is slotted into the DH
simply because there is no spot for him.  But that decision is made
because the other players are defensively stronger.  Putting him on the
field would weaken the team.  A young player may improve defensively. 
But most DHs are older players on the way down.
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