http://mets.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/07/20/baseball-magic-or-why-designated-hitters-are-silly/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Sat, 08 Dec 2018 07:19:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://mets.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/07/20/baseball-magic-or-why-designated-hitters-are-silly/#comment-1353 Wed, 07 Sep 2016 13:40:00 +0000 http://mets.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=1620#comment-1353 […] lot to be excited about. Walker and Granderson were hitting big hits. For a while there everyone—Colon! Syndergaard!—was hitting home runs. Harvey’s fourth-inning breakdowns seemed more mental than an injury that […]

]]> http://mets.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/07/20/baseball-magic-or-why-designated-hitters-are-silly/#comment-930 Wed, 03 Aug 2016 18:41:14 +0000 http://mets.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=1620#comment-930 […] deGrom performed so well that neither the Mets’ bats nor Familia had room to muck it up—deGrom threw a shutout in his first complete game, giving up a single hit to the opposing pitcher Zach Eflin, a moment I found equal parts infuriating and another point in my tally box for arguments against the DH. […]

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