Good morning, baseball fans!
I might have mentioned the fact that I also stream on Twitch at some point in the comments. I bring that up only because it is relevant to today’s topic of conversation. One of my community members brought up the designated hitter coming to the National League on my Saturday night stream and I went into a whole rant about it because it does seem as though one of the things that will come from the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) will be a universal designated hitter.
That community member later sent me this article from Travis Sawchik of FiveThirtyEight that basically lays out both sides of the argument with the numbers, but the conclusion drawn is that it doesn’t really make that much of a difference whether pitchers hit or not.