The purist claim that nothing in baseball should ever change. That just isn t very realistic. Baseball has changed incrementally since the beginning. In fact if nothing changed there would be no baseball, it would have never evolved from its origin of Rounders or Townball. If nothing changed, there would be no gloves, no catcher s gear, no batting helmets, and a dead ball.
Strategy cry the anti-DH folks.
I am sure that any manager who knows that 2 runs are better than 1 can figure out the double switch. Oh yes it does eliminated the tension filled moment when you wonder if your inept pitcher can lay down the bunt to move the runner along. The catcher sniggers until the pitcher holds the bat from the appropriate end. He steps up to the plate, makes 3 weak swings and heads back to the dug out, or more likely out to the mound because he is the 3rd out, and the number 8 hitter was walked just to get to the pitcher.