I think I've already talked about this with you in shoutbox, but Edgar Martinez definitely deserves to be in the HOF. If pitchers can make the HOF, a DH should make it too. What's the only gripe about the DH making the hall? It's always been that they don't play as much, since they're only hitting and not playing the field.
Pitchers don't hit, and only play once a week pretty much, but how many of them have made the HOF? Martinez has the numbers to get in, but he's a DH.
I agree with you about the DH rule, though. I'd rather continue to see pitchers hit in the NL, but it isn't fair that one team is going out there with David Ortiz as their DH, while the other is using either a mediocre utility guy, an on-base guy, a base-runner guy, or a washed up power hitter who used to DH in the AL guy.
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