Catcher Injury?

[HUDAMAN]

Actually, AZ's description of having two catchers hurt is consistent with my understanding of the rule. Note that he says he has three catchers. One and two get hurt, leaving him with one healthy catcher. When catcher one returns, catcher three gets hurt, because catcher three is no longer the only healthy catcher on the roster.

So, I don't think anyone here has said anything that is inconsistent with the rule, at least as I understand it. Which is, your LAST healthy player with a catcher rating cannot be injured.

[Jeepdriver]

Lee and Stoney are absolutely correct. 8)

[cummings2]

Jeepdriver is correct about Lee and Stoney being correct... and I am correct about Jeepdriver being correct about Lee and Stoney being correct.

...of course I could be wrong about being correct...just my opinion. :wink:

[J-Pav]

The way I understand the rule, the vets are correct; however, I believe there is some caveat about leaving the back-up catcher off of the lineup card (and manager strategy settings) as well.

For instance, if you have Bako and Lecroy, and you have Lecroy as your DH versus lefthanders, then when Bako gets hurt, you may find Alex Cora playing catcher for a game or two.

This happens so infrequently however, that when it does occur you might not even notice. Once the series is over, I think HAL defaults back to changing the DH to put the catcher behind the plate.

This thread reminds me of those days long gone when I remember wondering what would happen if four guys were hurt on a 13 man (high injury team) roster. Would the remaining guys be [i:bf387d5aea]unbreakable[/i:bf387d5aea]? No, SP Wilson Alvarez played the outfield in Game 2, went 1 for 3, then pitched a win in Game 3. I haven't seen this happen for a long time now, but I'm sure that if HAL will play Alex Cora at catcher, he'll still play Carlos Zambrano in the outfield.

Back to the topic, like [b:bf387d5aea]Worrierking[/b:bf387d5aea] I often use/seek out high injury catchers and can't say I've ever had both go down (when they were both assigned strictly as catchers).

[qksilver69]

I second J-Pav's warning about using a C as a DH. If you put 1 of 2 catchers in your lineup as DH, the one actually doing the catching can get hurt, and then HAL will sub for him with a non-catcher.

[///Matthew]

If you're DH moves to the field; do you not then lose the DH for the rest of the game? Forcing your pitcher to bat.

[CHARLESBELL]

[quote:ed3be088a3="///Matthew"]If you're DH moves to the field; do you not then lose the DH for the rest of the game? Forcing your pitcher to bat.[/quote:ed3be088a3]

That's correct, but TSN will never move a DH to the field. that's why a non-catcher could end up catching as stated above.

[J-Pav]

[b:2c0761f68f]Matt[/b:2c0761f68f]:

[b:2c0761f68f]Charlie[/b:2c0761f68f] just beat me to it...but anyways...

That's just it, HAL will not move your DH to the field. It's been something of an aggravation that say, your 2B gets hurt and HAL puts in a [b:2c0761f68f]2B 4e36 [/b:2c0761f68f] on the field late in a game when your DH is a [b:2c0761f68f]2B 3e5[/b:2c0761f68f] (whom HAL leaves at DH). That's why if you have your second catcher in the lineup as your DH, HAL will not move him from DH to C (you must do it manually after the series).

I do not know if your second catcher is unbreakable when he's in the lineup somewhere (I don't believe he is). But it doesn't happen often enough for it to really matter. And when you get stuck with a backup infielder catching for a game or more, you usually can't tell the difference from your starter anyway (that is, you won't see a stat line where the infielder sub gave up like nine stolen bases or made a bunch of errors).

Now if I can just figure out why HAL removes Patterson from the game for Kent Mercker after giving up a leadoff single in the fifth when he's pitching a three hit shutout on slow hook. :?

[TefJ]

Thanks for the help, guys. It seems that a viable strategy is to find an injury prone backup, as you'll get more bang for your buck, provided you can find one who fits your team. I was just worried because I remember an instance in 2005 where Todd Zeile had to play catcher and kept firing the ball into the outfield every time anyone would steal. He did play catcher, though he was very poor, and I've never seen 2 catcher injuries to teams who had only 2 catchers. Thanks for clearing that point up for me.