EFL Answer Man: Help for the injured?

Dear Mr. EFL Answer Man:

Desperate to Beat the Pears

Dear Mr. Beat the Pears:

Your plight is oh-so-familiar to EFL veterans.  Your man goes down with a gruesome injury in early September.  You wait and wait for the MLB team to do the compassionate thing and put him on the DL.  It never does — once again MLB owners give heartless capitalists a bad name.

Unfortunately, your EFL team suffers, too, because the rule only allows for mid-month adjustments for demotions to the minors or placement on the DL (or the restricted list, in the case of especially ill-behaved players).

This makes September a uniquely dangerous month for EFL managers.  The best way to cope with this is to be a little extra generous in your allocations for the month — something you needed to do by midnight last Sunday.

You can always email Brian Cashman and ask him to do the right thing for you.  You do have all the MLB GM’s on your email list, right?  Surely this is the case, because somehow you’ve obtained my email address, which is far more exclusive.

If you can’t reach Brian, then you have my sincerest empathy.  It’s a good thing  your oversight only affects the outcome of the annual snack foods judging contest at the EFL state fair. But don’t worry — I hear you’re a lock for at least a red ribbon.

— Mr. Answer Man