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Blue Jays have to deal with the Shohei Ohtani rule, which is unfair to everyone in MLB but Dodgers

Life isn't fair.

But even knowing that, the MLB change known colloquially as the " Shohei Ohtani rule" has a hint of unfairness to it, at least in how it relates to the Toronto Blue Jays and every other team that isn't the Los Angeles Dodgers .

When Ohtani starts a game on the mound and is pulled from pitching, he gets to remain in the batting lineup as the DH.

The rule was put in place in 2022. Before that, any pitcher pulled from the game would be taken out of it entirely. If he was in the batting lineup before, he couldn't be in it anymore without going to a different position in the field.

MLB set the rule up to relate to two-way players in general.

But

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