Dress 25.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 Increase active roster

Each MLB team has a 40 man roster with 25 players eligible to play a particular game subject to other rules.

Why not increase the active roster from 25 to 30 but only dress 25 per game?  ...

Oh, and eliminate that stupid September roster increase. Why should the roster rule be so different for one of the six months? Watching Texas manager Ron Washington make a travesty of that in September 2010 staring me thinking about this.
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Around that time Yankee manager Joe Girardi was going nuts watching Ron Washington do his record setting Texas slow walk bringing in one pitcher after another.  Girardi suggested that teams be allowed to dress only 25 players no matter how many were on the active roster at the moment.  During today's Yankee game against Baltimore Yankee announcers mentioned that Baltimore manager Buck Showalter had the same idea: limit teams to 25 players during games.

If both Girardi and Showalter are advocating something it can't be very radical.  So why hasn't the Major Baseball League (MBL) given this simple idea any serious consideration?  Neither the NFL nor the NBA do anything like increasing the rosters during their seasons.