If there's a pathway to play baseball under the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 season will serve as an accelerated test lab for implementing changes in the game. One of them will be the use of a universal designated hitter. The concept that Major League Baseball will be better served by having bona fide hitters at every spot in the lineup is widely popular but, unexpectedly, not with Bartolo Colón.
And not because Colón, among the players most unskilled with a bat in MLB history, hit an all-time memorable home run.
"In general, when it comes to baseball, I don't like all the changes they're putting in," Colón, who turned 47 Sunday, said during a video call with ESPN.