Designated hitter

Quality:

Designated hitter - offensive position in baseball and softball. Article "Designated hitter" in English Wikipedia has 91.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 149 references and 14 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Designated hitter" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Designated hitter", its content was written by 410 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 799 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1922 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6252 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2325 in March 2022
• Global: #8406 in April 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6599 in October 2016
• Global: #9399 in October 2016

There are 15 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Designated hitter		91.4286
2	Japanese (ja) 指名打者		52.5362
3	Chinese (zh) 指定打擊		34.8532
4	Swedish (sv) Designated hitter		29.797
5	Malay (ms) Designated hitter		19.0858
6	French (fr) Frappeur désigné		18.7737
7	Polish (pl) Designated hitter		15.0688
8	Finnish (fi) Designated hitter		14.8636
9	Simple English (simple) Designated hitter		14.4825
10	German (de) Designated Hitter		12.9633

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Designated hitter		3 648 013
2	Japanese (ja) 指名打者		2 355 614
3	Spanish (es) Bateador designado		339 953
4	Chinese (zh) 指定打擊		210 021
5	Korean (ko) 지명 타자		137 617
6	German (de) Designated Hitter		98 893
7	French (fr) Frappeur désigné		49 589
8	Italian (it) Battitore designato		38 349
9	Dutch (nl) Aangewezen slagman		28 734
10	Portuguese (pt) Rebatedor designado		17 353

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Designated hitter		21 563
2	Japanese (ja) 指名打者		20 650
3	Chinese (zh) 指定打擊		2 451
4	Korean (ko) 지명 타자		2 212
5	Spanish (es) Bateador designado		972
6	German (de) Designated Hitter		402
7	French (fr) Frappeur désigné		256
8	Italian (it) Battitore designato		171
9	Simple English (simple) Designated hitter		157
10	Dutch (nl) Aangewezen slagman		70

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Designated hitter		410
2	Japanese (ja) 指名打者		177
3	German (de) Designated Hitter		37
4	Chinese (zh) 指定打擊		28
5	Korean (ko) 지명 타자		26
6	Italian (it) Battitore designato		25
7	French (fr) Frappeur désigné		24
8	Dutch (nl) Aangewezen slagman		23
9	Spanish (es) Bateador designado		20
10	Simple English (simple) Designated hitter		9

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 指名打者		3
2	English (en) Designated hitter		2
3	Spanish (es) Bateador designado		2
4	German (de) Designated Hitter		0
5	Finnish (fi) Designated hitter		0
6	French (fr) Frappeur désigné		0
7	Italian (it) Battitore designato		0
8	Korean (ko) 지명 타자		0
9	Malay (ms) Designated hitter		0
10	Dutch (nl) Aangewezen slagman		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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