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Originally Posted by md40022
^^^ I was actually under the impression that playing an injured player at all, even if just DHing, did run the risk of making the injury worse - regardless of what the injury type was. (though DH'ing would be better than playing defense)
I could totally be wrong about that, but I thought there was discussion about this a few years back and the belief was that the type of injury would influence a specific set of ratings (throwing affected moderately would affect defensive ratings, obviously), but even DHing that player, where he wouldn't be throwing, still ran the risk of worsening the injury........ I could be wrong though.
As for how I handle this personally, there's a ton of variables. Who is the player? Where am I in the standings and is it early or late in the season? If I can avoid playing him without sabotaging the season, I absolutely do avoid it or at least cut back on his playing time as much possible.
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I agree with you - I would always be in the camp of “put him on the DL”.
Specific to OOTP25, which has to deal with a very unique case this year with Ohtani (and using Harper last year) I can tell you the AI this year has zero qualms using Ohtani at DH all year and typically he is starting late in the season.
As a result I did test it when it came up in a season (throwing injury only) and when I have used it players don’t seem any more likely to get injured or have it linger.