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Get ready for the DH in the NL
Momentum had been building anyway, but Wainwright's injury could be the final nail in the coffin for pitchers batting. Combined with the lack of offense, it seems almost a certainty that the new CBA will include the DH in the NL.
I guess I'll eventually get used to it, but I suspect I'm not going to be a fan at first. I guess it will save us the frustration of watching Matheny double-switch his clean-up hitter out of the game.
Now, if only the Cardinals had enough hitters to come up with a viable DH option. Maybe Holliday if he can still hit after 2016.
- artie_fufkin
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Re: Get ready for the DH in the NL
I thought that almost immediately. I don't know much about Achilles' injuries other than they're more like a cumulative type of thing than a singular event like a muscle pull or a torn ligament. Pressure builds on the tendon, and it snaps. So this may have happened in the very next time he came off the mound to field a bunt, or ran to back up a base, not necessarily because he was running out of the batter's box.
The tendon itself rolls up like a window shade, and surgety is required to re-attach it, and there's usually a calendar year of rehab.
- APIAD
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Re: Get ready for the DH in the NL
It could have happend on the mound just the same.