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Isolated power. It's a fun metric for hitters. Let's you know who's a punch & Judy hitter and who can really mash.

Hey man, you're preaching to the choir. I love batting avg.! I was a pretty damn good ballplayer my whole life, even got my shot once upon a time. I batted well over .400 for my highschool and legion ball career. And I viewed a strikeout as a completely unacceptable outcome. I was so embarrassed if I struck out. Trouble was, I had no power at all. A true singles hitter. Joe DiMaggio struck out 13 times in 139 games in 1941. He also hit 30 home runs and led the league with 125 RBI. Mickey Mantle batted .237 in 1968(his final season) dropping his career avg to .298. he said it made him want to puke. Hank Aaron played 23 years and never struck out 100 times in a season.

True, any player can be injured while running the bases. Gary Sanchez is a prime example. He's done it twice this year(might have something to do with catchers getting the hell beat out of them all season long, but I'll concede the baserunning point). But to me, when it happens to a pitcher it seems like a huge waste and it's sooo avoidable. You're asking a guy to throw 100 pitches and then go hit and run the bases. No other position in baseball is as demanding on the body than Pitcher. Pitchers have been going down with season ending injuries every day and the NL adds another facet to the game that might add to that rate of injury. The NL can keep their automatic out in the lineup. I have no problem with that. But I absolutely hate interleague play! Leave my AL pichers alone! I'll sacrifice it for 3 games in the World Series, but not for a stupid July series with the freaking Phillies or the Mets. [People] dig the long ball!

It's 15 current players who would no longer have a position. As of 2015 the DH was the highest paid position in baseball at 10.5 million per year. Fist basemen came in 2nd at 6.5 million and pitchers came in 3rd at 6.3 million. So now you have a player making 10.5 million who will negatively impact your team if you put him in the field, and now you have pitchers who negatively impact your lineup. And if the pitcher does manage to get on base you have a new set of problems. Like your boy Max Scherzer blowing out his achilles running out of the batters box. Or Chien Ming Wang effectively ending his career rounding 3rd. Or Masahiro Tanaka losing a month to a hamstring injury. Not to mention how much a pitchers ERA goes up in the half inning following him running the bases. Everything about it is bad!

You think the union would let MLB put 15 players out of work? 15 players with the highest average salary? Nope! The DH is never going away.

Giancarlo Stanton plays both corner outfield positions and it's a pretty good right fielder. He also has an off the charts ISO and his wRC+ is Hall of Fame worthy. So, if he keeps his career on this path...yeah, dead lock for the Hall.

@LTS I forgot to address the fluke of Chris Davis. He's a Baltimore Oriole. That's all the explanation needed. But I'll go deeper. A couple years ago the O's paid Chris Davis a billion dollars to strike out and hit home runs, because they thought...I don't know what the hell they were thinking. And now they are continuing to play him while he's in the midst of the worst season a hitter has ever had because they are the Orioles. He's a sunk cost never to be recovered, but instead of DFAing him they leave him to fester in the lineup because they owe him an ungodly amount of money. The O's never did know how to spend money. Remember 1998 when they had the highest payroll in baseball?

Pitchers are done batting the minute they graduate high school. Colleges and all the minor leagues use the DH. So the last time pitchers got to see live pitching, before getting to the big leagues was when they were 18. And it definitely wasn't major league level pitching. So you get to the bigs around 22-24 years old and now you haven't seen live pitching in half a decade. It's a perishable skill. And by then, it's gone.

Yeah, that's called a fluke. Madison Bumgarner has 511 career at bats. He has 92 hits. That's good for a .190 avg. And he's about the best hitting pitcher in the game. It only gets worse from there. Much worse. It's awful. It's boring. It injures multi million dollar investments.

That was heaven's gate! I remember that vividly! It was all black and black Nikes! The people at Nike mush have had a stroke after all that free advertising!

Yeah, once a game you have to sub for a player who sucks so bad, half the league has to do it. Oh, oh, oh the double switch! Boing!!!

Ah yes, the AL. Where pitchers have to get 9 outs instead of 8. Tell me again how awesome it is to watch the pitchers "bat" below .130 for the season. Instant outs are nice.

Stan Mikita has died. 78 years old. Blackhawks legend Stan Mikita dies https://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/1581179

There is some tacky ass decorating going on there! Says the guy who hangs maps and sports merch on his walls.

See, this is why I have a mechanic for a brother and my wife is Mona Lisa Vito. She's got skills! Me? I can change the wipers, swap out a battery and fill it with gas.

Cheap . It's called cheap .

I figured as much. Not my choosing, but I'm sure Jack doesn't care what I think.

No pics? Just under a million for a townhouse...eh

1. Had no idea he was still in the league. 2. His numbers last year weren't pathetic. Nothing you'd want on a fantasy team, but not too bad for a #3(or #2 if you're the bills)

Am I misremembering Marquise Goodwin? I remember him as fast, terrible and injured. Was there more to him than that?

Gaahhhhh! That one smacks of pretentiousness and it just plain ol' hits the ear wrong.

I ask because I heard number 1 in Ken Burns' documentary on Vietnam, from the narrator. And I was wondering if I'd been saying it wrong all this time(unlikely, I know).

Associated Is it asso-SHE-ated? Or asso-SEE-ated? Discuss

I do love me some fall. I just hate highschool football season. But that's my problem for buying a house with a football stadium for a back yard.

138 days until winter.