Rubin's Rant - MLB Roster Size and Pitcher's Health

One of  Mack's Mets founding writers sent the following to me regarding MLB's Roster size and Pitcher's Health:

"With MLB being so focused on COVID protocols you would think that that bodes well for how they feel about the long-term health of their players. However, that does not seem to be the case because what they are doing is keeping the rosters at 26 and making pitchers hit after a year of not doing that.

 You would think that they would have at least kept the roster at 28 like they did last year but one could even make a case for extending it to 30 for the season considering that the pitching staff of every team is going to have to throw three times as many innings as they did last year and the minor leaguers basically threw no competitive innings so they have not been in a game condition for over a year and a half and you know that injuries on the mound are going to get out of hand very quickly. 

It would behoove them to extend the rosters to 30 so each team can carry four more arms on their active roster - NOT on a Taxi squad- and avoid potential injuries that could be crippling to many teams and many players. And at this point, forget about how you feel about the designated hitter, it would seem to be a necessity as well in order to keep pitchers further protected from injury.

Once again, IMO, MLB & Rob Manfred have blown it big time and the additional injuries that I suffer this season as a result will all be on his head!!"

Thanks Dave - Now it's your turn Mack's Mets readers.  What do you think?