Battitore designato

Designated hitter - offensive position in baseball and softball. Article “Battitore designato” in Italian Wikipedia has 14.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.74 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Italian) language version.

Since the creation of article “Battitore designato”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 823 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 108 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 6907 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #43445 in January 2026
• Global: #8421 in April 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #137566 in October 2025
• Global: #9423 in October 2016

There are 18 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, 2026 (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		91.2722
2	Min Nan (zhminnan) Chí-tēng táⁿ-kek		69.4698
3	Vietnamese (vi) Cầu thủ đánh bóng chỉ định		54.0305
4	Japanese (ja) 指名打者		52.6268
5	Chinese (zh) 指定打擊		33.8208
6	Swedish (sv) Designated hitter		29.2314
7	Russian (ru) Назначенный хиттер		25.1384
8	Malay (ms) Designated hitter		18.9301
9	French (fr) Frappeur désigné		18.7132
10	Polish (pl) Designated hitter		15.0587

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Battitore designato" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Designated hitter		3 873 110
2	Japanese (ja) 指名打者		2 529 744
3	Spanish (es) Bateador designado		352 136
4	Chinese (zh) 指定打擊		234 336
5	Korean (ko) 지명 타자		147 921
6	German (de) Designated Hitter		103 444
7	French (fr) Frappeur désigné		53 114
8	Italian (it) Battitore designato		40 551
9	Dutch (nl) Aangewezen slagman		29 349
10	Portuguese (pt) Rebatedor designado		18 083

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Battitore designato" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Designated hitter		12 403
2	Japanese (ja) 指名打者		9 500
3	Chinese (zh) 指定打擊		882
4	Korean (ko) 지명 타자		863
5	Spanish (es) Bateador designado		363
6	German (de) Designated Hitter		235
7	French (fr) Frappeur désigné		153
8	Italian (it) Battitore designato		92
9	Russian (ru) Назначенный хиттер		58
10	Dutch (nl) Aangewezen slagman		54

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

Language versions of the article "Battitore designato" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Designated hitter		419
2	Japanese (ja) 指名打者		186
3	German (de) Designated Hitter		37
4	Chinese (zh) 指定打擊		28
5	Korean (ko) 지명 타자		27
6	Italian (it) Battitore designato		26
7	French (fr) Frappeur désigné		25
8	Dutch (nl) Aangewezen slagman		23
9	Spanish (es) Bateador designado		20
10	Simple English (simple) Designated hitter		9

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

Language versions of the article "Battitore designato" with the highest AI in June 2026

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

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

Language versions of the article "Battitore designato" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 指名打者		2 200
2	English (en) Designated hitter		2 170
3	Korean (ko) 지명 타자		944
4	Chinese (zh) 指定打擊		485
5	French (fr) Frappeur désigné		327
6	Spanish (es) Bateador designado		178
7	Polish (pl) Designated hitter		113
8	Italian (it) Battitore designato		108
9	German (de) Designated Hitter		95
10	Portuguese (pt) Rebatedor designado		72

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#	Language	Value
de	German Designated Hitter
en	English Designated hitter
es	Spanish Bateador designado
fi	Finnish Designated hitter
fr	French Frappeur désigné
it	Italian Battitore designato
ja	Japanese 指名打者
ko	Korean 지명 타자
ms	Malay Designated hitter
nl	Dutch Aangewezen slagman
pl	Polish Designated hitter
pt	Portuguese Rebatedor designado
ru	Russian Назначенный хиттер
simple	Simple English Designated hitter
sv	Swedish Designated hitter
vi	Vietnamese Cầu thủ đánh bóng chỉ định
zh	Chinese 指定打擊
zhminnan	Min Nan Chí-tēng táⁿ-kek

Best Rank

Italian: #137566 10.2025

Global: #9423 10.2016

Best Rank

Italian: #43445 01.2026

Global: #8421 04.2022

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