Fantastic Baseball Injury Ranking: Top 35 IL Caches With Juan Soto Added To The Heap

There is a good chance that you are feeling the crisis right now. Players seem to be going on the IL faster than they are leaving, and you have little room to work. If you’re lucky, your commissioner threw you one or two IL spots (or, uh … five?) So you don’t lose a bench spot every time a player is sidelined. , but you might reach the point where even these start to spill over.

Juan Soto is the last to descend, landing on the IL with shoulder strain. The news came out of left field about an hour before Tuesday’s game, and so far no one on the Nationals’ pace has been able to provide details. I’m guessing, given the silent development, it’s pretty minor, but it’ll still have to consume an IL spot for now.

The good news is that some Season Stashes are now activated. Kyle Lewis, absent since late spring training with a bruised knee, returned to the roster on Tuesday, and the Padres finally built Dinelson Lamet to the point of releasing him on Wednesday. Ke’Bryan Hayes and Austin Nola are also set to return.

But there is also a downside when a player leaves the IL. If you had it hidden in an IL location you would have to cut someone, and sometimes – probably not in the case of the players I mentioned, but sometimes – the correct player to cut is the same one you activate. .

It might make you wonder why you hid it in the first place. Well, this list is meant to advise you on which injured players are most worth hiding and which are not so much, in case you have to make some tough decisions. The criteria are a combination of the quality of the player, the expected duration of his absence and the possibility that the injury has a lingering effect on his performance.