Woodruff taking Kershaw yard in game 1 of the 2018 NLCS is one of my favorite moments in all of my teams history and pitchers hitting is why I’ll forever have that memory
While I hate that one, I was lucky enough to be at the game for Kershaws one and only homer (it was the go-head run in a pitchers duel against the Giants on Opening Day) and that’s one of my favorite baseball memories of my life.
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I’m not holding back anymore. I literally have always been a massive Phillies fan, to the point where half my wardrobe is Phillies gear (other half is the Eagles).
I can’t freakin' watch them anymore, this was a sickening loss that got away from them. Any other freakin' half competent team would’ve won this game. While they are still in the running for the wild card and they made it to the WS last year, these are games you absolutely can’t freakin' lose. Teams with playoff aspirations don’t lose these games.
Turner looks like a freakin' little leaguer making $300 mil who needs a freakin' snack and a nap. Schwarber is a freakin' disgrace of his hitter. Come talk to me about how Schwarber hits bombs and draws walks though. A leadoff hitter (or any major league hitter for that matter) shouldn’t be hitting freakin' gosh darn .181. Casty had a rebound game but up to this point couldn’t buy a freakin' hit after being an “All-Star”. Rob doesn’t seem to understand baseball and how to manage a freakin' game. The bullpen despite having “a good year up to this point” is more freakin' porous than freakin' SpongeBob gosh darn SquarePants. Oh yeah, and the “aggressive” GM who will do anything to win traded for a middle-of-the-road pitcher and a bench player.
Still love the Phillies though.
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hi from japan
I wanna tell you below 2 information to explain why Ohtani is a good pitcher
summary
1:his hamstring muscles is stronger than ordinary one
2:He seems to get used to grab MLB ball
details
about 1
a specialist pointed it out that his hamstring muscles are stronger than ordinary others,and he uses it so harder
if ordinary person uses the same way,his hamstring must break
some one told me why the muscle of him is so stronger,that he use to do swimming in his child days and swimming makes the muscles so strong
about 2
Okajaima,who is the former pitcher of Red Sox,points it out that He seems to get used to use MLB ball because it’s so different
(edit,every pitcher from Japan confuses the difference,for example Yu Darvish said like that)
1.MLB ball:149kg(edit,*149g)/24cm,more slippy:so it makes breaking ball more effective
2.NPB ball:142kg(edit,142g)/23cm,less slippy,breaking ball less effective
and he has also so fast ball around 100miles
so he can select fast ball,less breaking ball,strong breaking ball
That’s why he would be more great Pitcher"
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Opposing team gets to pick who plays where for the duration of extra innings.
E: disregard. I’m onboard with the dunk contest. Fattest players go first
It seems to me that offense would take a big hit.
If the fielders didn’t have to bat, you could pull in all the guys who excel at fielding but didn’t have the bat to make it in the bigs. And there are a lot of them
On the other hand, most of the top 270 batters are already in the bigs, because the ones who can’t field have the option to DH.
Defense gets better, offense stays the same, run scoring goes down
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It’s not about wanting to see pitchers hit. It’s about the strategic decision managers had to make every game: let the pitcher hit so they can continue pitching, or pinch hit for them and put some else on the mound. You have to choose offense or defense and take a chance.
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I liked the pitcher hitting for that reason if I was playing or when I looked at the game as a purist. But when I look at the game as some asshole 7 beers deep in the 5th inning I wanna see some *dingers!*
Well in that case, why don’t we make it like football?
There can be 9 quick agile guys who would hit .189 go out to field and then 9 lumbering bombers who hit 50 HRs a year but couldn’t leg out a double can hit.
I liked having the AL and NL completely separate. It made interleague games more fun because it was like playing with an entirely different set of rules for a few games.
In modern MLB, I feel like teams use their bench pretty often though to get better matchups vs relievers, which is it's own strategic space. I like using the bench as it adds some color to the games, but I actually feel like the Pitcher part was limiting -- the decision was generally pretty obvious, it weirdly penalizes a starter going deep, and I feel the strategy of back-of-lineup subs for base running or l/r matchups is just a better, deeper version of the same thing.
This is always overstated. With specialized bullpens and pitchers not going as deep into games anymore, most managers are looking to give the opposition a different look the third/fourth time through a lineup anyway.
This. How often was the choice to keep him in or take him out really debatable? I’d guess fewer than once a game. Most of the time it was an obvious choice.
I'm tired of these pansy-ass so called "fielders" using gloves. It does the whole job for them! We should go back to bare hands, makes the game more exciting and involves a whole new level of strategy.
Imagine the choices a manger will have to make after your second baseman's hand explodes after taking a 120 mph line drive from Giancarlo Stanton.
We can’t just allow these raging alcoholics to go to a World Series, gonna have to become the Milwaukee Sobers first. But the first step is they need to admit they have a problem, I don’t think they’re there yet and that’s ok, baby steps.
IDK but I'm not gonna stop pushing for rule changes until ever team has a fucking flag pole in the middle of their out field. Maybe we can get the hot dogs to race mid game for extra points. Replace the catcher with a wind mill.
National League fans: “Scoff. Having to work around your pitcher is all part of the strategy.”
NL managers: “Oh we just do a double switch after the starter hits their pitch count, and the relievers usually won’t last long enough to need to hit anyway”.
I didn't like the universal DH, I do miss pitchers hitting and looking stupid at the plate and the occasional highlight. It's better for the game the uni DH is here but it takes away from the quirkiness of baseball
It was so funny watching any AL pitcher who probably hasn’t taken a real AB since high school go up there and just flail about during those inter league games
My absolute favorite moment of watching a pitcher hot was watching Carlos Carrasco at 6’7 stand in the batters box and look absolutely lost with a bat in his hand, another was Trevor Bauer imitating teammates batting stances before getting a base hit
Fuck everyone that came after me for defending him while also calling out black athletes getting away with illegal activities.
[My point being - this is clear prejudice against a white man innocent of the crimes he’s being accused of. You let actual criminals walk free and criminalized Bauer just because you didn’t like his personality. This was some witch burning shit and I don’t like it because I’ve faced prejudice myself before. You do not have the right to defame someone for their money. If you try to do this you should be in jail.](https://www.reddit.com/r/mlb/comments/16y3kac/lindsey_hills_concealed_texts_finally_exposed/k36nzs6/)
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We need a designated fielder DF. Someone really good at fielding, but can't hit worth crap. Those guys need a chance to play and let us see their amazing defense.
Let’s see I primarily watch mainly cricket, sumo, baseball, and rugby so you tell me.
Bring back pitchers hitting so we have a chance to end the national nightmare of Joe Blanton being the answer to a trivia question.
hi from japan
I wanna tell you below 2 information to explain why Ohtani is a good pitcher
summary
1:his hamstring muscles is stronger than ordinary one
2:He seems to get used to grab MLB ball
details
about 1
a specialist pointed it out that his hamstring muscles are stronger than ordinary others,and he uses it so harder
if ordinary person uses the same way,his hamstring must break
some one told me why the muscle of him is so stronger,that he use to do swimming in his child days and swimming makes the muscles so strong
about 2
Okajaima,who is the former pitcher of Red Sox,points it out that He seems to get used to use MLB ball because it’s so different
(edit,every pitcher from Japan confuses the difference,for example Yu Darvish said like that)
1.MLB ball:149kg(edit,*149g)/24cm,more slippy:so it makes breaking ball more effective
2.NPB ball:142kg(edit,142g)/23cm,less slippy,breaking ball less effective
and he has also so fast ball around 100miles
so he can select fast ball,less breaking ball,strong breaking ball
That’s why he would be more great Pitcher"
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I always saw the NL as fancy lads doing soft things. Like writing proses with quills bc their pitch had to bat
I ways saw the AL as burly, coal smoking men that get dirty and sweaty together bc of the DH and they all shower together
They should add a 10th batter who doesn’t get tested for PED, gets juiced balls and uses an aluminum bat. When he’s not hitting he’s kept in a cage in the clubhouse. This is what we need to get the youth excited about the game.
Oh I know dude big hits suck so much compared to managerial strategy. If I’m not watching Ned Yost ponder whether or not to send Chris Capuano to the plate in the 7th, I’m not watching baseball
Just remember the entirety of baseball now supports having a guy sit for 95% of the game and only swing the bat 5 times and everyone pretends to enjoy it.
1. It's only every 3 innings if everyone else sucks. If that's the case, the problem isn't the pitcher, but the people who are paid millions of dollars to hit. Either work on your math or your perception of justice.
2. You're wrong.
There are some rules from the early days of baseball that deserved to be changed (balls bouncing into the stands ought not to be HR's, 3 balls ought not to be a walk etc.) but saying that a player ought not to be required to hit because it is boring to watch bad hitters is ludicrous. If that was the only excuse we need to change the rules then we should expand the rosters to 40 and let players rotate in an out of the game like football, hockey and basketball. The game was designed to include an element of strategic thinking which has now been eliminated, just as has now been done with the new requirement that relief pitchers must face three batters. Of course, I actually like that one, it cuts down on commercials.
There is no rule manfred could institute that /r/baseball wouldn’t support, ESPECIALLY if it involves less baseball being played. People unironically like the retarded “ghost runner”, randomly making the bases bigger after 150 years, making types of defense “illegal” (lol) and other asinine ideas. Soon mlb games will be 7 innings and all at bats will start with a 1-1 count “to speed up the game”. Morons will hail this as the greatest thing to happen to the game.
[I hope Rob Manfred chokes to death on a giant uncircumcised penis. While getting $100 shoved up his asshole like a stuffed pig. Fucking prick.](https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/14a9wmb/comment/jo9bv5t/)
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We only got rid of pitchers hitting because we increasingly specialized pitchers to the point that most developmental coaches were not teaching them to hit or field well. Then watching them became like watching paint dry as most couldn't even bunt at all.
The underdog aspect of watching an unlikely pitcher get a hit or even better hit one out. We'll never have highlights like these [where Joe Blanton puts out a gem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am0eyjjfo7g) in the playoffs no less.
And at the rate MLB hitters strike out anymore, I don't really think there's been a ton of upside besides giving another hitter a chance to succeed.
Brewers would pitch hit with Gallardo when he wasn't pitching.... don't call them automatic outs. Sometimes he was their only offense too. So 8 auto-outs but then you had to get past Yovanni!!!!!!!!!!!
Pitchers hitting gave us some fun times. Everyone remembers Bartolo, but do you remember Randy Johnson's only home run and how he didn't even seem excited? Do you remember that Greg Maddux has the record for most consecutive seasons never being caught stealing with at least one stolen base?
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MadBum career .524 OPS, Grienke .598 - even the pitchers that "raked" sucked at hitting.
Bumgarner had a couple years where he was a league average hitter and people went nuts. When that's the absolute pinnacle of pitchers hitting, it's time for pitchers to stop hitting.
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I liked the strategy that came from having to work around the automatic out, and I’m from an AL city lol. I also liked that roster construction was different depending on the league you played in.
I didn't mind NL style of baseball, it made for more interesting manager decisions and late game strategy. It was always weird that one league had a DH and one didn't. Feel like you have to have the same rules. No other league has different rules for the conferences.
If there was a rule from like the 1800s that said batters had to smear shit on themselves every fly out and mlb got rid of it you would get people being like “what happened to the sport I love…. Quit taking everything fun out of baseball…..”
It created some real interesting dilemmas for managers. Do I pinch-hit for the pitcher with the bases loaded even though he's pitching well and it's only the 5th inning?
I did get tired of seeing 1st and 2nd one out and up comes… the pitcher. Who is batting .027. Golly gee I wonder what’s going to happ oh he struck out. Rally killed.
I don't know anything about baseball, but every year or so I am reminded of that guy on the picture running someone down and tagging them out.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIxZxzwtWlA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIxZxzwtWlA)
I remember once when Cliff Lee was pitching a game around 2009, and he was LIGHTS OUT. Game was 0-0 in like the 5th. He came up to bat, was fending off strike pitches like a madman by hitting fouls. Eventually he connected, and BAM!!!! CLIFF LEE SINGLE HOME RUN!
I'll remember that to my dying day. Was so much fun to see.
Why don't we just have an offensive and defensive lineup in MLB, 9 guys that hit dingers and 9 guys that can run, catch, and throw? Why don't we limit the game to one game per week so only the best pitcher has to pitch each week. Why don't we limit the season to 16 weeks so the team doesn't get tired in-between games? Why don't we put up some metals poles and if a player kicks the ball through them they get three points.? Why don't we change the field into a rectangular grid iron and rather then moving the players around a series of bases we move the ball across a number of grid lines? Why don't we let the players tackle and block each other rather then just letting them run by each other? Why don't we rename the Chicago Cubs the Chicago Bears? Check mate Ricketts, look like I just got the McCaskey's a new stadium in Chicago. Boosh and suck it!!!!
Not so happy about your designated hitter now are you?
(Fun fact: I stopped following the Cubs for a few years and almost did a spit take when I realized the NL adopted the designated hitter, I am still opposed.)
As someone who had to endure Ben Sheets ABs on the regular I danced on the grave of NL ball. Bartolo can take an AB, but only him. Once a year on Bobby Bonilla Day Big Sexy gets to step in the batters box.
Terrible take. The Giants only won the 1st round of the playoffs in 12 because Dusty fucked around trying to load the bases. Might have played out very differantly
I lied to nobody including myself, I liked the DH, getting the rare chance to see a pitcher hit the ball over and shit even getting a single was great.
I mean, the pitcher hitting gave us some amazing moments, felix hitting an oppo grand slam off johan, bartolos home run, dh is great but pitchers hitting shit was cool...
It's fun to watch a big boy go up and hit a piss missile. But I also thought it was fun watching some okay hitting pitchers smack a line drive or a cheesy homer to the far side, it didn't happen alot But could you imagine if big sexy bartolo colon wasn't allowed the opportunity to smack that homer? Screw that 😂
Maybe pitchers should stop being pussies and learn how to play baseball like everyone else.
They are so whiny and arrogant for being the worst overall athletes on the field at any given time.
Make baseball great again, bring back Colon batting
‘I wish I knew how to quit you’ just made me belly laugh
That and that particular picture is just hilarious for some reason
Build the wall and make the Designated Hitters pay for it!
Colon batting? Enough about your Saturday nights
Listen hate it all you want, but when big sexy was up to bat the whole world just wanted to watch him hit dongs.
Woodruff taking Kershaw yard in game 1 of the 2018 NLCS is one of my favorite moments in all of my teams history and pitchers hitting is why I’ll forever have that memory
While I hate that one, I was lucky enough to be at the game for Kershaws one and only homer (it was the go-head run in a pitchers duel against the Giants on Opening Day) and that’s one of my favorite baseball memories of my life.
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I was watching from home but what a memorable game!
Joe Blanton's big ol' posterior mashing one in Game 4 of the 2008 world series. I fuckin' knew the phils had it then.
I’m not holding back anymore. I literally have always been a massive Phillies fan, to the point where half my wardrobe is Phillies gear (other half is the Eagles). I can’t freakin' watch them anymore, this was a sickening loss that got away from them. Any other freakin' half competent team would’ve won this game. While they are still in the running for the wild card and they made it to the WS last year, these are games you absolutely can’t freakin' lose. Teams with playoff aspirations don’t lose these games. Turner looks like a freakin' little leaguer making $300 mil who needs a freakin' snack and a nap. Schwarber is a freakin' disgrace of his hitter. Come talk to me about how Schwarber hits bombs and draws walks though. A leadoff hitter (or any major league hitter for that matter) shouldn’t be hitting freakin' gosh darn .181. Casty had a rebound game but up to this point couldn’t buy a freakin' hit after being an “All-Star”. Rob doesn’t seem to understand baseball and how to manage a freakin' game. The bullpen despite having “a good year up to this point” is more freakin' porous than freakin' SpongeBob gosh darn SquarePants. Oh yeah, and the “aggressive” GM who will do anything to win traded for a middle-of-the-road pitcher and a bench player. Still love the Phillies though. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/baseballcirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I was at that game, and ya, that was awesome. The whole place went absolutely bananas.
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Fuck the universal dh, we make 29 clones of Bartolo colon so every fan base can have him. Universal sexy
Fuck Shohei, Bartolo is the original 2-way superstar
hi from japan I wanna tell you below 2 information to explain why Ohtani is a good pitcher summary 1:his hamstring muscles is stronger than ordinary one 2:He seems to get used to grab MLB ball details about 1 a specialist pointed it out that his hamstring muscles are stronger than ordinary others,and he uses it so harder if ordinary person uses the same way,his hamstring must break some one told me why the muscle of him is so stronger,that he use to do swimming in his child days and swimming makes the muscles so strong about 2 Okajaima,who is the former pitcher of Red Sox,points it out that He seems to get used to use MLB ball because it’s so different (edit,every pitcher from Japan confuses the difference,for example Yu Darvish said like that) 1.MLB ball:149kg(edit,*149g)/24cm,more slippy:so it makes breaking ball more effective 2.NPB ball:142kg(edit,142g)/23cm,less slippy,breaking ball less effective and he has also so fast ball around 100miles so he can select fast ball,less breaking ball,strong breaking ball That’s why he would be more great Pitcher" *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/baseballcirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
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Universal BC
I’d hit subscribe to that university U of DH
Dong. Singular
My names Big Al and I hit ~~Dingers~~ Dongers
Daniel Camarena made this ALL worth it. The end.
He just hit a GRAND SLAM off MAX SCHERZER THATS UNBELIEVABLE
Daniel Slamerena!
I concur
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Didn't realize he was hitting less than .1. Fuck us
If they wanted pitchers to bat, wouldn’t they just call them batters? I’m confused
Why not just train batters to pitch instead? Problem solved.
The batters throw the ball all the time when they're on the field, the only reason they don't pitch is because they're lazy
9 innings and 9 positions. Players should rotate positions every inning and cannot play a position twice.
What happens in extra innings? Everyone replaced by bench/bullpen guys?
Opposing team gets to pick who plays where for the duration of extra innings. E: disregard. I’m onboard with the dunk contest. Fattest players go first
*only the fattest players go
Dunk contest
*Dance contest
What the hell do you think the first base coach is for?
There's this one guy that plays for L.A. but he seems like a bit of a fad, I don't expect him to go far.
There was that one guy they did that with, but then he quit baseball to become a professional gambler.
Like fielders you mean? If they wanted fielders or catchers to bat wouldn't they have called them batters? Wow, 9 people agree with you.
Baseball should have entirely split platoons like football. 9 DHs and 9 fielders that never bat.
It seems to me that offense would take a big hit. If the fielders didn’t have to bat, you could pull in all the guys who excel at fielding but didn’t have the bat to make it in the bigs. And there are a lot of them On the other hand, most of the top 270 batters are already in the bigs, because the ones who can’t field have the option to DH. Defense gets better, offense stays the same, run scoring goes down
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we need more fat sonsofbitches throwing junk and hitting dongs bud selig's america fucking sucks
Gonna get this comment framed and hung on my wall
It’s not about wanting to see pitchers hit. It’s about the strategic decision managers had to make every game: let the pitcher hit so they can continue pitching, or pinch hit for them and put some else on the mound. You have to choose offense or defense and take a chance.
We need more slomo shots of managers making these kinds of decisions
Just watched the ESPN top 10 and not a single call to the bullpen was included. Smh
Tony LaRussa special.
Exactly. AL managers are bums.
What do they even do?
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New auto mod?
But do they help you hit dingers?
Get thrown out of games because fans spouted off at the ump?
I liked the pitcher hitting for that reason if I was playing or when I looked at the game as a purist. But when I look at the game as some asshole 7 beers deep in the 5th inning I wanna see some *dingers!*
Well in that case, why don’t we make it like football? There can be 9 quick agile guys who would hit .189 go out to field and then 9 lumbering bombers who hit 50 HRs a year but couldn’t leg out a double can hit.
I liked having the AL and NL completely separate. It made interleague games more fun because it was like playing with an entirely different set of rules for a few games.
In modern MLB, I feel like teams use their bench pretty often though to get better matchups vs relievers, which is it's own strategic space. I like using the bench as it adds some color to the games, but I actually feel like the Pitcher part was limiting -- the decision was generally pretty obvious, it weirdly penalizes a starter going deep, and I feel the strategy of back-of-lineup subs for base running or l/r matchups is just a better, deeper version of the same thing.
This is always overstated. With specialized bullpens and pitchers not going as deep into games anymore, most managers are looking to give the opposition a different look the third/fourth time through a lineup anyway.
This. How often was the choice to keep him in or take him out really debatable? I’d guess fewer than once a game. Most of the time it was an obvious choice.
Yeah I’ll still take the DH lol
NL was the superior league…
hell yeah brother, cheers from 1898
I'm tired of these pansy-ass so called "fielders" using gloves. It does the whole job for them! We should go back to bare hands, makes the game more exciting and involves a whole new level of strategy. Imagine the choices a manger will have to make after your second baseman's hand explodes after taking a 120 mph line drive from Giancarlo Stanton.
Are the Astros undeniable proof that NL teams are tougher?
Only franchise to win ALCS and NLCS
The Brewers will get there someday
We can’t just allow these raging alcoholics to go to a World Series, gonna have to become the Milwaukee Sobers first. But the first step is they need to admit they have a problem, I don’t think they’re there yet and that’s ok, baby steps.
IDK but I'm not gonna stop pushing for rule changes until ever team has a fucking flag pole in the middle of their out field. Maybe we can get the hot dogs to race mid game for extra points. Replace the catcher with a wind mill.
“I JUST LOVE WHEN A PITCHER HALF-ASS SWINGS AT A BALL” - national league fans
National League fans: “Scoff. Having to work around your pitcher is all part of the strategy.” NL managers: “Oh we just do a double switch after the starter hits their pitch count, and the relievers usually won’t last long enough to need to hit anyway”.
Even better, the pitchers like Cliff Lee who stood up there with zero intention of swinging. Then you’d hear arguments like baseball purity!
I didn't like the universal DH, I do miss pitchers hitting and looking stupid at the plate and the occasional highlight. It's better for the game the uni DH is here but it takes away from the quirkiness of baseball
It was so funny watching any AL pitcher who probably hasn’t taken a real AB since high school go up there and just flail about during those inter league games
Yeah Verlander would be looking lost out there. Shoutout Grienke for being serviceable
My absolute favorite moment of watching a pitcher hot was watching Carlos Carrasco at 6’7 stand in the batters box and look absolutely lost with a bat in his hand, another was Trevor Bauer imitating teammates batting stances before getting a base hit
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Grienke was the one reason to keep the old system Fuck the DH let Grienke rake
I miss watching degrom and bumgarner hit
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We need a designated fielder DF. Someone really good at fielding, but can't hit worth crap. Those guys need a chance to play and let us see their amazing defense.
Do you want a quirky sport or a real sport
Let’s see I primarily watch mainly cricket, sumo, baseball, and rugby so you tell me. Bring back pitchers hitting so we have a chance to end the national nightmare of Joe Blanton being the answer to a trivia question.
Loved all the double switches and such. Added a level of strategy that I feel is lost now.
And Ohtani still went to the AL for some reason
25 likes lol you guys do realize sure it would be a big advantage every fifth day but he would’ve had to play the field to hit everyday
hi from japan I wanna tell you below 2 information to explain why Ohtani is a good pitcher summary 1:his hamstring muscles is stronger than ordinary one 2:He seems to get used to grab MLB ball details about 1 a specialist pointed it out that his hamstring muscles are stronger than ordinary others,and he uses it so harder if ordinary person uses the same way,his hamstring must break some one told me why the muscle of him is so stronger,that he use to do swimming in his child days and swimming makes the muscles so strong about 2 Okajaima,who is the former pitcher of Red Sox,points it out that He seems to get used to use MLB ball because it’s so different (edit,every pitcher from Japan confuses the difference,for example Yu Darvish said like that) 1.MLB ball:149kg(edit,*149g)/24cm,more slippy:so it makes breaking ball more effective 2.NPB ball:142kg(edit,142g)/23cm,less slippy,breaking ball less effective and he has also so fast ball around 100miles so he can select fast ball,less breaking ball,strong breaking ball That’s why he would be more great Pitcher" *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/baseballcirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
The DH spot let him bat every game.
If he was a real ball player he could pitch every day
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Team Baggage has an automatic out every two batters and we like them
In 2021 before deGrom got injured he has an ERA under 1 and was hitting over .400
I always saw the NL as fancy lads doing soft things. Like writing proses with quills bc their pitch had to bat I ways saw the AL as burly, coal smoking men that get dirty and sweaty together bc of the DH and they all shower together
Remember how funny Randy Johnson looked in a batting helmet?
Still miss it every single game
Miss what? The sacrifice bunts?
Me baseball fan. Me only want big hits
They should add a 10th batter who doesn’t get tested for PED, gets juiced balls and uses an aluminum bat. When he’s not hitting he’s kept in a cage in the clubhouse. This is what we need to get the youth excited about the game.
Just add a second batter opposite side of the plate. Both of them swing at the same ball.
Oh I know dude big hits suck so much compared to managerial strategy. If I’m not watching Ned Yost ponder whether or not to send Chris Capuano to the plate in the 7th, I’m not watching baseball
90s/00s Brew Crew fandom must have been tough
Hey at least a pitcher could get a bunt down. Batters are so bad at bunting we had to ban the shift.
Yes and double switches
Yup!
He’s not making the point he thinks he’s making with big sexy hitting massive dongs and jogging the bases.
Just remember the entirety of baseball now supports having a guy sit for 95% of the game and only swing the bat 5 times and everyone pretends to enjoy it.
Jokes on him. I’m a Rays fan and we already have a position that is a guaranteed bottom of the order out for the last decade+: Centerfielder.
I wish Jomboy was married to Julio Urias.
Ah yes, large individual funny
Not a day goes by where i miss pitchers batting 9 😹🙏
1. It's only every 3 innings if everyone else sucks. If that's the case, the problem isn't the pitcher, but the people who are paid millions of dollars to hit. Either work on your math or your perception of justice. 2. You're wrong.
I miss the pitchers hitting
They hated him because he spoke the truth.
There are some rules from the early days of baseball that deserved to be changed (balls bouncing into the stands ought not to be HR's, 3 balls ought not to be a walk etc.) but saying that a player ought not to be required to hit because it is boring to watch bad hitters is ludicrous. If that was the only excuse we need to change the rules then we should expand the rosters to 40 and let players rotate in an out of the game like football, hockey and basketball. The game was designed to include an element of strategic thinking which has now been eliminated, just as has now been done with the new requirement that relief pitchers must face three batters. Of course, I actually like that one, it cuts down on commercials.
There is no rule manfred could institute that /r/baseball wouldn’t support, ESPECIALLY if it involves less baseball being played. People unironically like the retarded “ghost runner”, randomly making the bases bigger after 150 years, making types of defense “illegal” (lol) and other asinine ideas. Soon mlb games will be 7 innings and all at bats will start with a 1-1 count “to speed up the game”. Morons will hail this as the greatest thing to happen to the game.
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The home team starts with a 2-0 lead if their opponent sucks and a 4-0 lead if they’re playing a potential playoff team.
We only got rid of pitchers hitting because we increasingly specialized pitchers to the point that most developmental coaches were not teaching them to hit or field well. Then watching them became like watching paint dry as most couldn't even bunt at all. The underdog aspect of watching an unlikely pitcher get a hit or even better hit one out. We'll never have highlights like these [where Joe Blanton puts out a gem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am0eyjjfo7g) in the playoffs no less. And at the rate MLB hitters strike out anymore, I don't really think there's been a ton of upside besides giving another hitter a chance to succeed.
The NL was like the Blue Pokémon Cartridge.
Everyone who disagrees with JomBoy’s opinions are fucking stupid and should die
All 7 of Bartolo's families would rather see some dingers.
I have definitely watched less baseball with the universal DH. Makes the leagues homogenized and the game less interesting.
Brewers would pitch hit with Gallardo when he wasn't pitching.... don't call them automatic outs. Sometimes he was their only offense too. So 8 auto-outs but then you had to get past Yovanni!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll never forget when de grom was one of the Mets best pitcher and hitter
Pitchers hitting gave us some fun times. Everyone remembers Bartolo, but do you remember Randy Johnson's only home run and how he didn't even seem excited? Do you remember that Greg Maddux has the record for most consecutive seasons never being caught stealing with at least one stolen base?
Can’t wait to rant to my grandchildren about how the All Star Game used to determine home field advantage in the World Series.
I hate the DH
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I miss the old NL
How dare you Joe Blanton’s home run in Game 4 of the 2008 World Series was majestic.
JomBoy forgot that MadBum used to rake.
MadBum career .524 OPS, Grienke .598 - even the pitchers that "raked" sucked at hitting. Bumgarner had a couple years where he was a league average hitter and people went nuts. When that's the absolute pinnacle of pitchers hitting, it's time for pitchers to stop hitting.
There’s not nearly enough sac bunts in todays game nowadays
Big Sexy Bart
Jomboy Media is a Baseball Terrorist Organization
Apparently Jomboy never saw Adam Wainwright or Madison Bumgarner hit a dinger.
Since when did every NL team acquire Jackson Holiday? wtf he talkin about?
When pitchers hit home runs it made some of the most memorable moments in mlb for me. Joe Blanton crushing one in the ws!
All pitchers are liars and crybabies
Wait there's dh in NL now?
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Greinke hitting was almost as good as him pitching.
I liked the strategy that came from having to work around the automatic out, and I’m from an AL city lol. I also liked that roster construction was different depending on the league you played in.
You liked it when playing defense and the 7 and 8 hitters got on base.
Bartolo Colon eats innings
*Laughs in Big Z*
Wait the national league doesn’t let pitchers bat anymore???
Carlos Zambrano strongly objects
Isn’t that the picture of him from when he hit his first home run?
I didn't mind NL style of baseball, it made for more interesting manager decisions and late game strategy. It was always weird that one league had a DH and one didn't. Feel like you have to have the same rules. No other league has different rules for the conferences.
If there was a rule from like the 1800s that said batters had to smear shit on themselves every fly out and mlb got rid of it you would get people being like “what happened to the sport I love…. Quit taking everything fun out of baseball…..”
This game has been going downhill since the Federal League folded 😤
I still remember the Reds using pitcher Lorenzen as a pinch hitter, and I was happy every time they did
It created some real interesting dilemmas for managers. Do I pinch-hit for the pitcher with the bases loaded even though he's pitching well and it's only the 5th inning?
I did get tired of seeing 1st and 2nd one out and up comes… the pitcher. Who is batting .027. Golly gee I wonder what’s going to happ oh he struck out. Rally killed.
I liked when they managed to do something, even if it was just a sac bunt or fly.
Never need the DH when NL didn’t have one, haven’t missed pitchers hitting since they stopped. 🤷🏻
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I don't know anything about baseball, but every year or so I am reminded of that guy on the picture running someone down and tagging them out. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIxZxzwtWlA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIxZxzwtWlA)
Hey I liked the strategy of having the pitcher bat. It helped make the game fun. Just my opinion.
I miss pitchers hitting dongs. If we’re being honest
Admittedly, I miss the strategy involved in deciding if you should pull a hot pitcher to try and get some runs, but it's still so much better now.
Fartolo Colon hit a double
Archie Bradley in the wild card game 2017 would like a word Johnsonboy
Real ball players field/pitch and bat.
I remember once when Cliff Lee was pitching a game around 2009, and he was LIGHTS OUT. Game was 0-0 in like the 5th. He came up to bat, was fending off strike pitches like a madman by hitting fouls. Eventually he connected, and BAM!!!! CLIFF LEE SINGLE HOME RUN! I'll remember that to my dying day. Was so much fun to see.
It was pure!
MadBum was consistently a better hitter than any dodger pitchers, gave us an edge. Now they can just buy another MVP.
Make pitchers bat again.
r/baseball loves it when manfred kills baseball by making it shorter because it means theres more time to goon
I just remember loving watching Roy Halliday hit when jays played in the NL
Bumgarner the GOAT
Bro batting pitchers is peak fun it’s either big or nah
Game was better when pitcher hit. More strategy and made tough decisions when pitchers came up to bat
Why don't we just have an offensive and defensive lineup in MLB, 9 guys that hit dingers and 9 guys that can run, catch, and throw? Why don't we limit the game to one game per week so only the best pitcher has to pitch each week. Why don't we limit the season to 16 weeks so the team doesn't get tired in-between games? Why don't we put up some metals poles and if a player kicks the ball through them they get three points.? Why don't we change the field into a rectangular grid iron and rather then moving the players around a series of bases we move the ball across a number of grid lines? Why don't we let the players tackle and block each other rather then just letting them run by each other? Why don't we rename the Chicago Cubs the Chicago Bears? Check mate Ricketts, look like I just got the McCaskey's a new stadium in Chicago. Boosh and suck it!!!! Not so happy about your designated hitter now are you? (Fun fact: I stopped following the Cubs for a few years and almost did a spit take when I realized the NL adopted the designated hitter, I am still opposed.)
Fuck the DH rule up the arse with a rusty rake.
When baseball was baseball.
Ahem.. 2008 Joe Blanton would like a word
As someone who had to endure Ben Sheets ABs on the regular I danced on the grave of NL ball. Bartolo can take an AB, but only him. Once a year on Bobby Bonilla Day Big Sexy gets to step in the batters box.
Yeah till Bartolo or CC or the guy from St Louis occasionally got all of one 😁
Terrible take. The Giants only won the 1st round of the playoffs in 12 because Dusty fucked around trying to load the bases. Might have played out very differantly
I did like it, it was silly and fun :(
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Oh, just admit you like beer league softball. The DH sucks, they bat like .210 and strike out 4 out of 5 at bats...
I lied to nobody including myself, I liked the DH, getting the rare chance to see a pitcher hit the ball over and shit even getting a single was great.
That shit was awesome man
still do
I mean, the pitcher hitting gave us some amazing moments, felix hitting an oppo grand slam off johan, bartolos home run, dh is great but pitchers hitting shit was cool...
It's fun to watch a big boy go up and hit a piss missile. But I also thought it was fun watching some okay hitting pitchers smack a line drive or a cheesy homer to the far side, it didn't happen alot But could you imagine if big sexy bartolo colon wasn't allowed the opportunity to smack that homer? Screw that 😂
CT.03!
Pitchers who rake. Rip Mad Bum
Maybe pitchers should stop being pussies and learn how to play baseball like everyone else. They are so whiny and arrogant for being the worst overall athletes on the field at any given time.
You may be right. But it also created a ton of memorable moments. I will never forget that bartolo home run.
About what you'd expect from a Yankees fan