For as long as I can remember, baseball players who were injured were placed on something MLB called the “disabled list.”
Major League Baseball will rename the disabled list as the “injured list,” a source familiar with the plan told ESPN.
The league will make the change out of concern that the term “disabled” for injured players falsely conflates disabilities with injuries and an inability to participate in sports.
This does make sense, as injured players aren’t “disabled,” they are simply recovering from things that don’t allow them to play baseball for a certain length of time.