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The inability of Matsui to play the outfield gives the Yankees no choice but to go to another route. I strongly suggest to bring up guys form the Farm system.

They are still raw and a lot to prove. But this is the perfect time for them to see some action in the majors. It will be a good training ground for them while relieving old guys like Posada from time to time, giving them a partial day-off DH spot. For the Yankees who have several positional players creeping up on age "must" keep their DH spot open next season.

And it is essential for them to bring up good sluggers from their Farm in order to maintain their offense intact. We will be seeing a new DH for next season. So who would you want to be the Yankees' DH for the next season?

Enjoy our content? Join our newsletter to get the latest in sports news delivered straight to your inbox! Just as importantly, success at the plate has become increasingly tied to athleticism, as reflected by the huge gains shortstops, third basemen, and center fielders have made in relative production over the last decade and a half, so teams have less desire than ever to stash great hitters at spots that limit them to those responsibilities.

As such, the DH slot can augment run scoring, but it does so in a collective way. It can also, almost paradoxically, help some teams primarily by improving their run prevention. It no longer creates much in the way of extra jobs or extra dollars for players, although it can certainly still generate an extra win or two for teams.

Still, like automatic runners in extra innings, the universal DH felt very much like a glimpse of the future. It will be the way of things throughout the majors, sooner than later, and even if represents a disruption on the highway leading to that outcome, the destination is unchanged.

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College Football. By Mark Ross. By Steven Lassan. By Tom Bowles. By Athlon Sports. See More. A team is also barred from using a DH for the rest of the game if the pitcher moves from the mound to another defensive position, a player pinch-hits for any other player and then becomes the pitcher, or the current pitcher pinch-hits or pinch-runs for the DH. The designated hitter rule was adopted by the AL in Prior to , pitchers were required to bat in all NL games and Interleague games in which the NL team was the designated home team.

The DH was not used in the World Series from , then was used by both World Series teams during even-numbered years from ' The practice of playing each game by the rules of the designated home team's league began in the World Series. Designated Hitter Rule Definition The designated hitter rule allows teams to use another player to bat in place of the pitcher.