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Baseball question: Who has a bigger advantage?

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chuckywang

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Who has a bigger advantage?

(1) An AL team over an NL team playing in an AL ballpark

or

(2) An NL team over an AL team playing in an NL ballpark.

I think (1) is a bigger advantage due to the DH. The NL team is not built with a DH in mind, so their DH would be the best bench player. The AL team is built with a DH in mind, so they went out and got a player that knew was going to bat everyday and is of course a great hitter. Look at the 2004 World Series: For the games in Boston, you had David Ortiz as the DH vs. John Mabry as the DH for the Cardinals. Of course Boston had an advantage.

Anybody see anything wrong with this logic?

My point is this: The World Series is unfair due to the two different set of rules for the two leagues. I think the NL team should always have home field advantage to balance this out.
 
No..sounds fine to me.

Lets see, this season the Mets will head to Boston. David Ortiz will be Boston's DH..for the Mets?? Julio Franco!! 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Killerme33
#2 cause AL pitchers can't bat for ******. At least NL pitchers get a hit once in a while.
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There's going to be a far larger hitting gap between a good DH and an NL team's best pinch hitter, as opposed to an NL pitcher and an AL pitchers.
 
Originally posted by: Killerme33
#2 cause AL pitchers can't bat for ******. At least NL pitchers get a hit once in a while.
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eh..most NL pitchers can't hit for sh1t either...though some like Dontrelle Willis and Livan Hernandez have good swings.
 
Originally posted by: raystorm
No..sounds fine to me.

Lets see, this season the Mets will head to Boston. David Ortiz will be Boston's DH..for the Mets?? Julio Franco!! 🙂
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Hmm...but if Boston were playing in the NL, Ortiz would still be starting (at first base), so Ortiz would be on the roster either way. The Mets won't be avoiding Ortiz if the Red Sox came to New York to play. However, if the game were in the NL, Ortiz would replace the normal first baseman, who I think is Kevin Millar. But even so, Kevin Millar is a better hitter than Julio Franco.
 
The AL has the advantage, no doubt. If we all lived in a perfect world, there would be no DH, but that ain't gonna happen anytime soon.
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Originally posted by: raystorm
No..sounds fine to me.

Lets see, this season the Mets will head to Boston. David Ortiz will be Boston's DH..for the Mets?? Julio Franco!! 🙂
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Hmm...but if Boston were playing in the NL, Ortiz would still be starting (at first base), so Ortiz would be on the roster either way. The Mets won't be avoiding Ortiz if the Red Sox came to New York to play. However, if the game were in the NL, Ortiz would replace the normal first baseman, who I think is Kevin Millar. But even so, Kevin Millar is a better hitter than Julio Franco.
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..but Millar is not a better hitter than Carlos Delgado who would normally play first base. I do see your point though.
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Hmm...but if Boston were playing in the NL, Ortiz would still be starting (at first base), so Ortiz would be on the roster either way.
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That's not good logic. I don't know the Red Sox this year, but take the White Sox as an example. They have Paul Konerko playing first, and Jim Thome DH'ing. They want both hitters in the lineup, which they just cannot do if it weren't for the DH.

Konerko & Thome are a much better tandum than say the Cubs offerings of Derrick Lee & probably John Mabry at DH. Sure Lee is a fantastic hitter, but Mabry doesn't even begin to compare to Konerko or Thome.
 
Originally posted by: raystorm
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Originally posted by: raystorm
No..sounds fine to me.

Lets see, this season the Mets will head to Boston. David Ortiz will be Boston's DH..for the Mets?? Julio Franco!! 🙂
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Hmm...but if Boston were playing in the NL, Ortiz would still be starting (at first base), so Ortiz would be on the roster either way. The Mets won't be avoiding Ortiz if the Red Sox came to New York to play. However, if the game were in the NL, Ortiz would replace the normal first baseman, who I think is Kevin Millar. But even so, Kevin Millar is a better hitter than Julio Franco.
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..but Millar is not a better hitter than Carlos Delgado who would normally play first base. I do see your point though.
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Well, what I mean is that the only real difference for Boston playing in an AL park vs. an NL park is Kevin Millar. The difference for the Mets playing in an AL park vs. an NL park is Julio Franco. Delgado would be starting for the Mets either way.
 
As far as hitting skills go the American league team gets the edge in most cases, however I think overall it evens out because of the combination of better hitting pitchers & coachs who are (again in most cases, not all) more used to planning their batting order around the pitchers spot in the lineup.
I actually enjoy the differences between the American & National leagues .. in a world of ever more generic sports in genral its one of the things that make baseball unique.
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang


Well, what I mean is that the only real difference for Boston playing in an AL park vs. an NL park is Kevin Millar. The difference for the Mets playing in an AL park vs. an NL park is Julio Franco. Delgado would be starting for the Mets either way.
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oh yea.. I understand what you mean. I just saw that Millar is actually in Baltimore now. Who the heck plays first for Boston?
 
Originally posted by: raystorm
Originally posted by: chuckywang


Well, what I mean is that the only real difference for Boston playing in an AL park vs. an NL park is Kevin Millar. The difference for the Mets playing in an AL park vs. an NL park is Julio Franco. Delgado would be starting for the Mets either way.
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oh yea.. I understand what you mean. I just saw that Millar is actually in Baltimore now. Who the heck plays first for Boston?
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Hmm...looks like it's JT Snow now.
 
Originally posted by: Captante
As far as hitting skills go the American league team gets the edge in most cases, however I think overall it evens out because of the combination of better hitting pitchers & coachs who are (again in most cases, not all) more used to planning their batting order around the pitchers spot in the lineup.
I actually enjoy the differences between the American & National leagues .. in a world of ever more generic sports in genral its one of the things that make baseball unique.
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I don't think there's much of a difference between NL and AL coaches and managers at the major league level. Everybody should be able to plan their batting orders based on stats, and be able to execute a double switch.
 
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