courtesy runner for the DP????

[Dakota]

Originally posted by slowballbaker
When David bats and reaches base can you use a courtesy
runner for David other than the flex??

This sentence bothers me a lot, because it indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of the DP/FLEX rule.

Check out the handout on this site pertaining to the DP/FLEX rule. Also, on the links page of that site is a link to Cactus Umpires, which has an excellent powerpoint presentation on line up management that deals very nicely with DP/FLEX.

The DP and the FLEX positions may not replace each other at will, yet many persist in this belief. I am mystified as to how this misunderstanding of the rule got started, since it never has been anything close to that.