Talk:Designated hitter

message: I'm kinda new here, but should the quotes section be there? It doesn't seem like something that's normally allowed...Altairantares (talk) 13:27, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Please read this Baseball Bugs, another user that views the Quotes section as unnecessary SF Gyros (talk) 04:24, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

text: The quotes section is very out of place. Not Wikipedia material at all. That kind of thing is what Wikiquote exists for. Random assortments of quotes on a subject don't belong in that subject's Wikipedia article. If anybody's dead set on keeping the quotes, work them into the main article. 75.76.213.106 (talk) 05:15, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Legitimacy of the Quotes section

message: Felix Hernandez's grand slam came in an Interleague game at Shea Stadium, not in an American League ballgame between 2 AL teams. --Bjrbbhaw81 (talk) 00:49, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Felix Hernandez's grand slam 

message: "April 10, 2007 was the first time the designated hitter was used at a National League park during a regular-season game."
Pretty sure that's not true. Off the top of my head, the Yankees played their home games at Shea Stadium in '74 and '75. Also, the Yankees played another home game there in '98.
67.161.188.134 (talk) 23:04, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: DH in NL park

message: This game is interesting because SEA pitcher Brian Holman was one out from a perfect game in OAK.
The SEA DH went to play 1B in bottom of 8th inning and Holman came up to the plate in top of the 9th and actually reached base on an error. He lost the perfect game (and shut-out) in bottom of the ninth when A's pinch-hitter Ken Phelps hit a 2-out homerun.  Holman
retired the next batter to end the game.  (I was at this game and bummed to miss out on seeing a perfect game.)
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/OAK/OAK199004200.shtml  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roybears (talk • contribs) 18:17, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another case of lost DH in AL game, Seattle April 20, 1990 

message: Sept. 4, 2012, White Sox v. Twins http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA201209040.shtml
Sept. 13, Rays v. Orioles http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2012_09_13_tbamlb_balmlb_1&mode=wrap#gid=2012_09_13_tbamlb_balmlb_1&mode=box
Dom316 (talk) 01:45, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Forfeited DH games  

message: The section on examples of a team forfeiting the DH is way too long. It seems like its trying to list every game where that ever happened. I don't think that's a good idea, as it is very trivial to get into that level of detail for a single thing. oknazevad (talk) 16:23, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It probably is about time to resort to categorizing and summarizing the cases, keeping just a few as examples. WHPratt (talk) 17:33, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

text: The whole deal was somewhat more interesting in the pre-interleague years, as some pitchers hadn't held a bat in many years. I'd suggest moving the complete list to a supplementary page. The article should be trimmed to one example (first, latest or most interesting) of each type of no-DH situation (e.g. (1) Pitcher starts the game in the batting order; (2) DH goes in on defense -- include mistakes; (3) pitcher pinch hits; (4) pitcher switch requires pitcher to enter the battiong order; (5, etc.) other really odd cases. WHPratt (talk) 14:56, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the new page suggestion.  That mile long list is irrelevant to this article, but is still in many ways encyclopedic.  I doubt any examples, even who played DH first, really belong here. Huw Powell (talk) 04:46, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excess examples 

message: I propose to rename the "Criticism" section "Debate". This would more accurately reflect the content of the section, since it consists of arguments both for and against the rule, without a heavy preponderance of arguments against it. Another option would be to name the section "Controversy", but even that implies a preponderance of negativity. Another argument for "debate" is that the word is used in the first sentence of the section and in the titles of two of the references, while "criticism" is used nowhere in the article other than in the current section heading, and "controversy" is used only once in the fifth paragraph of the section. I'd be bold and just go ahead and do it, but it's been around for six years, so I figured I'd ask first. Jbening (talk) 22:43, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I like it. (The proposal, that is. Well reasoned and very much NPOV.) oknazevad (talk) 22:56, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Criticism" or "Debate"? 

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message: 2019 inductee into the HOF in the last year of his eligibility. Needs to be updated. --SlimJimTalk 06:26, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Best to keep it straightforward. oknazevad (talk) 16:38, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: added reference to his election that was missing. Yousou (Complain) 21:27, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edgar Martinez 

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message: In MLB spring training games, either team may use a DH in any game. If an AL team is playing at an NL spring training park, both teams may opt to use or not use the DH. Even in NL vs NL spring training matchups, one or both teams may elect to use a DH. 
(I’m a former professional umpire who worked MLB spring training games. ) Scott88 (talk) 00:43, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  DH in spring training games is incorrect 

message: The article has no explanation of this argument. I mean not a pro and con but a basic statement on how the DH was intended to improve health and safety in 2020. -- 2003:C0:973F:5700:97E:B644:464E:5986 (talk) 01:41, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: From the cited source: "...to avoid overtaxing pitchers by having them hit." No comment there on whether that makes any sense. BilCat (talk) 02:56, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exactly how did the DH improve health and safety in a pandemic situation?