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Originally Posted by Lordofbrewtown
Interesting. One of my better starting pitchers was DtD for 40 days and put up 3 terrible starts in a row, so bit the bullet and put him on the DL, as it really affected performance
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As manager, when a player gets a DtD status, I do the following (all of which seem to me as just intuitive):
1. what is the severity?
2. what is his history with this specific injury?
3. what is his history with this type/area of injury?
4. if the above does not direct me to put him on the DL, then he does get put on a DtD watch, meaning his performance is closely monitored each outing.
Re #4 and your scenario with the SP - if I decided to leave him in the rotation I would have closely monitored his next GS. If he tanked, and I still decided to keep him off the DL, then he would likely pitch from the bullpen next time. If he kept tanking, then he would go the DL because at least I could then bring in someone else who might not tank.
I can randomly look at players on the injury list and see where they continued to play and perform at around season averages throughout DtD injuries.
One example is a player with Wrecked health status and a career-long list of injuries. His current DtD is listed as moderate and not in an area with which he experienced considerable injury in the past (eg no lengthy DtD, no DL). So he continues to play and his performance has not declined (meaning, it remains around his seasonal average).
And of course we need to consider how the game is actually coded around this issue. The manual (iirc) does state explicitly that past injury in a bodypart area may act as predictor to future issues re same. How or if this transfers to DtD performance may require more game data to answer.