Broken Bat - Suggestions: Slot DL

Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date	Function

#10641	10/09/2014 5:17:17 am
Meccanodonte Joined: 04/21/2014 Posts: 370 Inactive	I'm sure someone already proposed this, but has been taken in consideration this opportunity? Especially pitching may be "short" in some cases. I'd like to pick up someone from free agents, even the heaviest contracts that no one seems enjoying, filling my roster instead of a not-ready-yet minor leaguer.

#10642	10/09/2014 5:42:12 am
Haselrig Joined: 04/13/2014 Posts: 2790 Novi Doubledays III.4	I'm hoping it's on the to-do list somewhere. A DL would add a whole other level of strategy to the game. Putting a slumping hitter on the 60 day DL when he has a 4 day injury for example.

#10647	10/09/2014 11:09:22 am
Meccanodonte Joined: 04/21/2014 Posts: 370 Inactive	It wasn't what I was thinking, honestly

#10648	10/09/2014 11:40:17 am
Haselrig Joined: 04/13/2014 Posts: 2790 Novi Doubledays III.4	Wouldn't be anything real baseball clubs don't do

#10649	10/09/2014 2:06:02 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	We've discussed this before...the reason you have an expanded big league roster (30 players maximum) is partly in lieu of having a disabled list. Steve

#10657	10/09/2014 4:53:09 pm
Holmes Joined: 11/07/2013 Posts: 1175 Inactive	Plus the MLB 15 day DL means leaving a player on the 40 man roster, which would be equivalent to sending him to the minors while calling up a player from there in our logic (I have done that in the case of a few long injuries, if my majors roster was full). To actually clear a space on the 40 man, an MLB team has to put a player on the 60-day-DL, and we don't have injuries that long.

#10663	10/09/2014 5:51:00 pm
the gizmo Joined: 02/07/2013 Posts: 574 Inactive	Works fine as it is