Right, but we've also eft a lot of this to self-governance in the past... something that hasn't worked too well in the IBC as fasr as the DL goes.Mariners wrote:Athletics wrote:Clearly we need to discuss the standards for this, because I don't believe we've established them. I think that if there is any gray area about whether a guy would be available if the team was in a pennant race then we err on the side of allowing him to play.
That's how it has always been in the past, but things appear to be different this September.
We've always addressed the issue on a case by case basis. We've never set a two week basis that if a guy hadn't played in two weeks that we automatically decide that he's not physically capable of playing. There is always just too much gray area with teams this time of year. In the past if it was an obvious case we'd have them sit out, if it was a gray area, we'd error on the conservative side and let the player play because there is so much mis-information out there in regards to actual injuries and how teams treat them this time of year.
Think of the list above as an initial list. If someone wants to challenge who is on there, by all means do so. If it looks like the player will be back or shouldn't be on there in the first place, he'll come off the list.
