Buried in this Sunday notes column by Buster Olney at ESPN, in discussion about free agent DH Nelson Cruz, is this comment about the universal designated hitter:
Regardless of whether the universal DH is again negotiated for use in 2021 — the safe bet is that it will, unless the MLB and players’ union animus erupts to the point of complete dysfunction — Cruz might get a lot of teams’ interest, but probably not big, big dollars.
Olney is one of the national writers who seems pretty plugged-in to what’s going to happen in baseball, and I believe him.