- [C.J. Wilson] In baseball, the team would occasionally put underperforming players on the “phantom disabled list”. They would invent an injury that was hard to refute- like a hip strain, then would call a guy up from AAA. Especially helpful with older players or guys that were fragile. https://twitter.com/str8edgeracer/status/1813753147120378291 151 comments baseball
- TIL of Phantom ballplayers, who are baseball players who spent time on the MLB active roster without ever appearing in an MLB contest. In 2018 there was one Phantom ballplayer, LHP Ryan Bollinger for the New York Yankees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/phantom_ballplayer 53 comments baseball