Injury Blocks

This is a reposting of Greg's comments on Injury Blocks

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There are two main purposes to this rule

1) To avoid the "my good players sit against the crappy teams and play
against the good teams" syndrome.  If your guy broke his leg and missed
two months he should miss two months against whoever you play.  The main
purpose of this rule is realism

2) To create more free agents.  This is in conjunction with the 23 man
limit.  The more you have to juggle the lineup the more likely it is you
wont be able to keep 23 veterans around.

I had discussed enforcing rosters more strictly this year.  In the past
if you sent a veteran to the minors he stayed your property until year
end.  I think he should become a free agent immediately now.  He can be
claimed the following block by any team.

Also discussed was being able to sign an emergency player to fill a few
games if you realized you were suddenly short. We proposed that you
could sign someone from the free agent list to fill that hole.  However,
that player went back to being a free agent at year end.