Major League Baseball will replace the “disabled list” with the “injured list” for the 2019 season amid concerns that the term “disabled” was insensitive.
The “disabled list” has been part of professional baseball since the mid-1960s (though there are records of some teams using a “disabled list” as far back as the early 20th century), and it’s become second nature to refer to an injured or exhausted player as “on the DL,” but MLB has been reportedly playing around with the idea of renaming the injured roster in order to better reflect the condition of players who skip games for medical or physical reasons, according to ESPN.
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