<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>I think it can be interpreted either way.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>It seems reasonable to me to call up someone who plays the same position, without necessarily sending down the injured player. The rule seems to exist to allow you to maintain a legal roster after a mid-series injury, and calling up a third catcher when both other catchers are hurt seems to be within the spirit of the
rules.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>If the intent was that only the injured player could be deactivated, I think the wording should be made more explicit.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span>-Rusty<br></span></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Russell Peltz<br>peltz38@yahoo.com, rpeltz@soe.sony.com</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Monday, August 18, 2014 11:29 AM, Sean Sweda <sweda@ibl.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none">On Aug 18, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Brent Cunningham wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> The question I have regarding 4.1.1 then,
is this, and this might require a commissioner's edit of 4.1.1.:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Is a DTD player considered as injured for the series, or is he considered as fulfilling one of those two roster spots? Sean, if I recall correctly, you said at one point in the past that a DTD player counts as "healthy" in that regard. If that's the case, then bringing up Nieves and having Montero DTD fulfills the "2 at each position" requirement.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Correct, a player who is DTD can be considered your "backup" at a position.<br clear="none"><<a shape="rect" href="http://wiki.ibl.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/dtd-instructions" target="_blank">http://wiki.ibl.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/dtd-instructions</a>><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Nowhere in 4.1.1 that you posted does it say that an injured player has to be deactivated the way it is currently worded.<br
clear="none"><br clear="none">The first sentence specifically says: "A team may (but is not required to) replace an injured player...". "Replace" in the context of the active roster should be considered to be synonymous with "de-activate". Similar wording is used in 3.3.3. The word can be changed via edit, does anyone else think this is necessary?<div class="yqt1707015787" id="yqtfd84620"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sean<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>