Originally Posted by
Rogue
I wonder if the number I saw were since 1990 for example, or for a single year.
Pitchers that year, batted .137 .. what was the DH batting ave. that year,, if it's easy to look up,, just curious.
According to baseball prospectus, pitchers (in both leagues) batted .139/.177/.175/.352 in 2008 (negligibly better if you look just at NL pitchers), and DH's hit .255/.338/.433/.771, so aside from the big gap in batting average, the overall gap in hitting production was pretty massive.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/le...=MLB&year=2008
I highly doubt pitchers ever collectively hit .190 in a season, at least in the past 30 or 40 years.
Demented and sad, but social, right?