Ok here’s my thought.

AL Advantage - NL has to bat a DH
NL Advantage - Pitcher has to bat

My take, plenty of pinch hitters bat in the NL. Finding a player to use as a DH is pretty easy. However, AL pitchers neverrrr hit. They’re basically surefire outs.

What you think?

I think it's dumb that the leagues still do this differently.

Yes that's why the red Sox won ws

al has the advantage. the ability to pay a player who can flat out rake yet is a major liability in the field and get 600 at bats out of him is much greater than the difference of a pitcher who hardly ever bats vs a pitcher who bats more often with a career .200 obp

No, the AL has the advantage and the records corroborate this.



Yup.



It's not fair but I still am kind of fond of the differences between leagues. Makes it feel like two leagues competing rather than just arbitrary "conferences" like in the NFL and NBA. I also like things like different field sizes and architecture. It's unfair, but cool.

Maybe one day they'll decide to standardize everything.

This post was edited by Voyaging on Oct 28 2018 10:12pm

there's literally nothing holding teams to a league though

the astros flipped what, 5 years ago?

would understand that logic if there was no bouncing between them, but they are just arbitrarily made up, so the rule is just dumb

This post was edited by stuartg85 on Oct 29 2018 08:35am

that's pretty rare

Pitchers are wimps. Learn to hit pussies. Hard to believe the best hitting pitcher is an asain. Showing all the whites how it’s done

how is that an advantage when those 600 at bats are coming as part of competition against other teams who are doing the same thing?

The advantage, if there is any for either side, would only surface during an interleague game

This post was edited by Kayeto on Oct 29 2018 06:30pm

Topic says "in the WS"