That player accrues one day of MLB service time and is returned to the Minor Leagues following the completion of the doubleheader. Teams also are permitted to call up a 27th man on days when they are completing a previously suspended game and have another game scheduled after that, but the 27th man is only permitted to play in the regularly scheduled game that day, not the contest that was previously suspended. Upon being optioned to the Minor Leagues, a position player must remain there for a minimum of 10 days before he is eligible to be recalled to the Major League roster.
For pitchers, the minimum is 15 days. If a player is serving as the 27th man for a doubleheader or replacing a player who has been placed on the injured list, there is no minimum number of days for which the optioned player must remain in the Minors. Clubs are permitted to carry up to five additional Taxi Squad players on all road trips with the Major League team. If the club elects to carry five additional players, at least one must be a player whose designated position prior to the season is catcher.
Players on the Taxi Squad are permitted to work out with the Major League club but are not permitted to be in uniform and in the dugout during games. Upon the conclusion of each road trip, players on the Taxi Squad will return to their club's Alternate Training Site.
A postseason roster is allowed up to 25 active players. Other players who are not on the man active roster will be placed on the secondary squad. Players who are on the disabled list or any other non-active transaction by the end of the regular season will have their transactions passed on in the postseason. Rosters for a series are set at the beginning of the series and no changes to the man active roster are allowed except when a player is moved to the disabled list or any other inactive transaction.
If a player is moved to the disabled list or another inactive transaction during a series, it then becomes ineligible to be returned to the man active roster for the remainder of the series as well as the next series if applicable.
If any player goes on any inactive transaction, any player from the secondary squad can be promoted to the man active roster for the remainder of the series if applicable. To be eligible for the postseason active roster, a player must have either been on that team's active roster or disabled list as of midnight ET on August 31 of that year and not placed on the 60 day disabled list after August 1.
The one exception is for replacing players on the disabled list. Any injured player who is eligible for postseason play may be replaced by any player that was on an active or disabled list for either that team or any of its affiliated minor league teams at midnight August Players who do not participate in one game in the Majors before September 1 with the team's organization of the regular season will be declared ineligible for the team's man active roster of the postseason and must be placed on either the restricted list or the secondary squad.
Players who are part of the team's final roster regardless of spending a majority of time in the Minors, being acquired in trades or waivers, serving the rest of the season on any inactive transactions such as the disabled list, or signing later for the team in the regular season will be eligible to receive a championship ring when the team wins the World Series.
On September 1, the Major League team's roster expands from the man active roster to the entire man roster. At this point, any player on the man roster can play for the Major League team. September call-ups are players from the minors who are playing in September to get Major League experience and, especially for teams in contention, to provide reinforcements down the stretch.
A phantom ballplayer is a player who spent time on an active Major League roster Man or Man , but never actually appeared in a big-league game. By Major League Baseball rules, since they didn't appear in a game in some fashion baserunning, plate appearance, or a trip to the mound , they are not considered former Major Leauge players, instead they are known as phantom players:. The Sporting Life of February 24, , reported that pitcher Jimmy Whalen sent in a contract to the New York Highlanders, although it is unclear if Whelan ever made the team's active roster once the season was underway.
Regardless, he never appeared in a major league game, though he won over games in the minors. It's unclear, however, if he was ever on the team's active roster, as he had been injured the previous winter. First baseman Jeff Jones was briefly on the Philadelphia A's roster in , but never played. As with several other players of this era, it is not definitively established if Jones was ever actually on the A's active roster during the season. Outfielder Lou Almada made the major league roster of the New York Giants out of spring training in , but was hurt just as the season began, and never reached the majors again.
In , his brother Mel Almada became the first Mexican to play in the majors. Minor league pitching legend Jake Levy was reported in at least one contemporary account to have signed with the New York Giants in September , without ever getting into a game. However, whether Levy actually spent any time at all on a Giants' active roster is a matter of some dispute. Al Olsen is an unusual example of a verifiable real-life person who never played a major league game, but was included in official major league records for many years.
Olsen, a career minor league pitcher, was credited as appearing in one game on May 16, , as a pinch hitter walking, and then stealing a base for the Boston Red Sox.
But research by the Society for American Baseball Research in the s showed that while Olsen had been with the Red Sox during spring training, he was released and picked up by San Diego of the Pacific Coast League before the season began. Olsen pitched on May 15 for San Diego, and given wartime travel restrictions, could not have arrived in Boston for the game the following day. Olsen himself says "It wasn't me. I was a left-handed pitcher. I couldn't hit my hat. Besides, I never played a game in the major leagues.
In September , outfielder Bill Sharman spent time on the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers without getting into a game. Sharman also remains the only player to be ejected from an MLB game without ever actually playing in one, when umpire Frank Dascoli tossed out the entire Dodgers bench for arguing with a call at home plate on September 27, Sharman is far more notable as a professional basketball player and coach than as a baseball player; he is in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
He pitched in a mid-season exhibition game against the Chicago Cubs, and then was returned to the minors. A long reliever is brought in when the manager needs to get several innings of relief, either because he was forced to pull the starter early in the game or because the game is in extra innings and he doesn't know how long it will last.
The requirements of a long reliever are more similar to those of a starting pitcher than to other relievers, and manager Earl Weaver said that long relief was an ideal role for a young pitcher trying to break into the starting rotation. A long reliever brought in when the game seems hopelessly out of reach is known as a mop up man. A middle reliever is brought into the game later than a long reliever would be, usually in the 6th or 7th inning.
He is expected to protect a lead, or prevent the other team from extending its lead, for about one inning before giving way to a setup man. Middle relievers are often brought in when the starter has faltered and allowed batters to reach base, so they often must be good at stranding inherited runners. A setup man is usually brought into the game in the 7th or 8th inning when his team is tied or has the lead.
He is expected to protect the lead or the tie before the manager brings in his closer. Setup men are often viewed as closers-in-waiting. The closer is a reliever who specializes in finishing the game, and the position is normally held by the best reliever on the staff. Modern usage calls for the closer to be brought into the game to start the 9th inning when his team has a lead of 3 runs or less.
Some teams have right-handed pitchers who are used in a similar role against right-handed hitters, but their use is much less stereotyped than the use of lefty specialists. A swingman aka spot starter is a pitcher who may be used either as a starter or as a reliever. The requirements of a swingman are similar to those of a long reliever, and the long relief role is where he would most commonly be used when relieving.
The swingman will be given an occasional start, either to give the rest of the staff an extra day of rest, to spell a starter who must miss a start because of injury or suspension, or because the team has a doubleheader.
The early season schedule has more days off than the rest of the year, so it's often possible to skip one spot in the rotation while still giving the rest of the starters their customary rest. Some teams will take advantage of this by moving their 5th starter into a swingman role for the first month of the season. The extreme specialization described above applies only to recent usage. Pitching usage has evolved over time, with trends toward larger pitching staffs and increased specialization.
A brief summary of changes in pitching usage:. Pitcher Catcher. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction?
0コメント