{"id":19308,"date":"2016-05-08T11:22:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T10:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=19308"},"modified":"2016-05-08T11:24:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T10:24:39","slug":"weekly-hit-ground-ball-colon-miller-and-a-windy-city-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=19308","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Hit Ground Ball: Colon, Miller and a Windy City World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WHGB11\"<\/a>Many of us in the UK have been treated to a weekend of glorious weather, so this week’s column will be short and to the point on three stories that caught my eye from Saturday’s games.<\/p>\n

Bartolo Colon hit a home run<\/h2>\n

The pro-DH\/anti-DH arguments are well known and many are firmly set in their position. For some people, the many wasted plate appearances of pitchers without much of a clue or hope with a bat in their hands just add up to too much to make the occasional bright spot worthwhile.<\/p>\n

Not for me. Let’s be honest, there are a significant minority of position players in the Majors right now who aren’t much to write about with the bat so creating an extra 15 batting positions (i.e. all 15 NL teams adding an extra hitter to replace the pitcher) every day won’t lead to 15 more stars being created.<\/p>\n

I am quite happy to live with aimless at-bats when it leads to occasional moments like this …<\/p>\n