Farm System

[Kid]

Nah.  To the extent it influences interleague games, it will affect everybody.  So while the NL could conceivably do slightly worse in interleague games by playing a bench player instead of a true DH, it doesn't matter because everybody has to deal with it.

 

Let's say that on average each NL team loses 1 more interleague game than they would have (there's no way it has anything close to that big of an impact), so what?  Playoff seeding is determined on the record within your own league and record doesn't control home field advantage in the World Series.

 

If anything, it hurts the AL when it comes to the draft since that's the one thing where teams from both leagues are seeded together according to record.

 

As far as the World Series goes, there have been a total of 31 World Series played using a DH for at least some games.*  The AL team is 16-15 in those Series, and that includes the Yankees team that won 4 Series in 5 years.

 

* - From 1976-85, the DH was used for the entire series in even-numbered years.  Starting in 1986, they went to the current format of using the DH at the games hosted by the AL team.