When news broke that Major League Baseball was considering extending the Disabled List from 10 days back to 15 days, there was both confusion and finger-pointing.
Confusion in that such a policy would seem to go against player safety concerns, as we wrote previously:
There were many reasons a 10-day disabled list was introduced, and chief among them was the protection of players. Teams may be more hesitant to put players on the DL for low-severity injuries if they will be unavailable for more than two weeks.
Incentivising teams to keep injured players on the 25-man roster may indeed add offense to the game, but not for the reasons teams should want.