Disability Days in Major League Baseball

We have examined the injury experience in Major League Baseball as reflected by the disabled list, based on data presented by American Specialty Com-panies in their publications, to examine any changes in injury rates over the past 11 years. It is reasonable to expect that improvements in training and conditioning, diagnostic methods, and surgical treatment over the last 11 years would have reduced injuries and resulted in fewer players on the disabled list. Yet, such does not appear to be the case. There is no evidence that the number of injuries in Major League Baseball has de-clined over the last decade; on the contrary, it appears that both the number of players and player days on the disabled list have increased. Team membership, injur