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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 2750339, member: 1969"]
For you to put "strategy" in quotations, I am thinking you don't fully understand the extra strategic demands an NL manager has.  They have about 8-10 extra things to think about in between innings 5-9 than an AL manager.  Not just pulling the starter.

A few examples.
- Do you make the releiver change, forcing yourself into a double switch.  Or do you hang on to that releiver for the inning, and avoid the switch,

- And there is most definetely an art to the double switch.  Many manager use the last out to switch out, but the ones that are the best are the ones who can weigh if you should concede a few spots in the lineup for it... do I make the pitcher the 7th, 8th or 9th up after the change... well that depends on the gap between starter and bench guy at each position.

- As a manager, how do you pitch to that eighth guy.   Do you force the other manager to take take the starter out earlier.

- In the AL you can easily do the lefty / lefty thing, in the NL you have to think more wisely in terms of making such moves.

[B]Obviously the NL will result in weaker lineups.   And for that reason alone I can see how AL fans will never accept the game.   Especially when they lose on of their stars.  Its a good reason.   Just like strategy is a good reason for NL fans.   It comes down to what you are used to.[/B]

But there is most definetely an art into managing how much weaker those lineups will be after substitutions.   The manager who is more patient in making changes, and also things more carefully about double switches, and when to use pinch runners will be less hurt by it.
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