Big important news about situations that will never come up

When you can only carry 25 guys, you will always have the risk of running short on players in certain situations. Last night, the Twins had an extra-inning game. So good thing they carry 12 pitchers. The Twins have a lot of guys who are day-to-day, especially in the infield. So good thing they have an extra infielder. The same kind of arguments can be made for numerous situations.

On a scale of 1-10, the risk of losing your catcher to injury while your DH is hitting, and thus losing your DH is about a 1. I can think of five more prominent risks that have affected the Twins in the last two weeks off the top of my head:

1. Running out of pitchers in the bullpen in extra innings
   
2. Needing to keep a light-hitting right-handed hitter in to bat against an opposing right-handed closer because you don't have any bats on the bench
   
3. Having an injury to a middle infielder during the game and not having anyone to replace him, so he had to gut it out
   
4. Having an injury to you center fielder while his only replacement is DHing
   
5. Having no back-up first baseman on the roster

Why Gardy fixates on this one risk and ignores the others blows my mind. This roster has current holes to fill. For example, there is no good left-handed bat on the bench. If he insists on carrying another catcher, he's only increasing his risks in other areas.

And the thought that he wants to do this just to keep Mike Redmond's bat in there is precious. Red Dog can hit off the bench. But his bat is too week to expect it to be productive every day.

If he had adequate bats on the bench, he wouldn't need to worry about losing his DH. He could just pinch hit when that spot comes around late in the game. It's just moronic.