Jacob deGrom Quotes

If you look at it long-term, I think eventually there will be a DH in the National League.

If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH in the National League.

The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League.

I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.

I know my Dad's a National League guy. I'm an American League guy. I tell him all the time we got better hitters. He's like well we got better pitchers. I'm like cause you all got those easy outs at the end.

Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.

I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.

I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.

I don't like the designated hitter. A guy who plays should be able to catch and hit.

I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.

Baseball players are not specialists; they all have to do it all. That is why I, and many aficionados, dislike the American League's practice of replacing the pitcher with a designated hitter. This creates two players who do not have to do it all.

Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult for that very reason (having the designated hitter). In the National League, my situation is dictated for me. If I'm behind in the game, I've got to pinch hit. I've got to take my pitcher out. In the American League, you have to zero in. You have to know exactly when to take them out of there. In the National League, that's done for you.

When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the Cubs, the Phillies, the big-name teams.

My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.

American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.

I was always taught that a catcher has to be the brains of the team.

Look, do I like the Mets and the Yankees? Absolutely.

Teams always have natural leaders on the pitch and natural leaders in footballing terms.

What we need to do is strike the right balance in our teams for all three formats of the sport.

I only ever call up the best players, or at least the players who are the most suited to the way I wish to play.