Can pitchers be used to pinch hit?

If you play live you can do it manually and easily.

Otherwise, it depends on the quality of hitting on your bench. Sparky will take the best available hitter for the situation. If that is your pitcher, then he will use him without hesitation.

Since the change in salary it may not be an affordable strategy. Before last week I've done it often with good results. you need to give up your entire bench. you need to put the hitting pitchers in the starting rotation because your bullpen won't PH. and it doesn't work if your pitchers are too fatigued between starts. Takes a lot of maneuvering but it was fun and I had excellent results with that strategy.