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Article: Disabled list has become more of a sore spot
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 1, 1995
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The 1995 Red Sox are leading the major leagues in at least one
critical category: injured players.
Roger Clemens, Jose Canseco, Mark Whiten, Lee Tinsley and Vaughn
Eshelman are on the disabled list now, and four other Sox were there
earlier this season. That's two more than Milwaukee, the
next-most-hobbled AL team, and one more than the three National
League leaders.
While it's not surprising to see players pulling up lame in a
late-starting season for which spring training was cut in half, it is
alarming to see how many more are turning up disabled now compared
with just a decade ago.
In 1993, for instance, 364 major leaguers spent time on the
disabled list -- more than double the 172 ...