I love playing baseball. You field the team with the best available nine players. You don’t keep the seven good players and get rid of the two who underachieve. Sometimes you need to add a designated hitter without removing a player from the lineup. When batters safely reach base they become runners. If the first batter who gets on base goes to first base, and the next batter who gets on base advances the first runner to second base and the second batter occupies first base, you have just increased your opportunity to get to home plate by 50% and your opportunity to get to third base by 75%. The more runners that you get on base, the greater your opportunity advance to the next base and to score a run. The more times a batter reaches base, the higher his OBP (on base percentage). The higher the OBP of each of your players, the greater your opportunity to have more players on base which will increase your opportunity to score a run. The more runs you score the greater your GRP (gross run production). The greater your GRP, the greater your opportunity to be in a run surplus. Having a run surplus means that your teams GRP is greater than your…show more content… If your team is in a slump, you might need to go with a designated hitter which allows to you add a better player to the lineup. If your slump is an economic downturn or recession, your designated hitter might turn out to be a public works project that was added to the lineup of government programs already in existence. If you consider the batter to be like a worker who is unemployed, the runner to be the unemployed person who gained employment, the more unemployed people who gained employment now have the opportunity to contribute to the economy with the added wage they now have (you could liken this to the players OBP). When the total combined added wages of the newly employed takes effect, the total income of the nation increases