Pure baseball fans will rue the day they see the Phillies, Dodgers, Giants, and every other National League team add the designated hitter, but that day is coming, and sooner than you might think.
Former Reds and Nationals general manager Jim Bowden tweeted Monday morning that the “growing belief amongst NL GM’s that the DH will be instituted for NL as early as 2021.”
Bowden’s colleague from The Athletic Ken Rosenthal noted in a subsequent tweet that the collective bargaining agreement ends after the 2021 season, meaning the earliest, and possibly, likeliest, implementation would be for the 2022 season.