Diamond Mind Baseball Transaction Codes

Making sense of your roster.

Diamond Mind Baseball Transaction Codes

There are a bunch of injury codes included with Diamond Mind Baseball’s real life transactions that might not make much sense to you.

Many people don’t pay attention to these, of course. The only time you’ll see them is if you go to the roster page — something that you honestly don’t have to do if you’re playing with real life transactions and lineups turned on.

However, if you’re like me and you want to play only with transactions turned on, here’s a quick guide to what these things mean.

Injury Codes

BER — Bereavement leave; in other words, the player is unavailable due to a death in the family.

DEC — Deceased. This is what happens when a player dies part of the way through the season.

DOG — In the doghouse. This means that the manager benched the player and has decided that the player simply will not play. I’m guessing this one comes up with those Yankees teams of the late 1970s.

DTD — Day-to-day. This is the code that got me to start looking around. This means that the player is injured but is not on the disabled list.

FAM — Family medical leave. Somebody in the family is sick, and the player is attending to that person.

INA — Inactive, meaning that the player is on the “restricted list.” I’m not entirely certain that I understand what this is referring to.

MIL — Military leave. This one is obvious.

NOR — Not on the roster. This means that the player has been released, waived, or traded away. I believe this code only exists because Diamond Mind will create two records for players who have been traded during the season, one for each team.

PER — Personal leave. Again, this one is obvious. I’m not entirely sure why we need separate codes for personal leave, bereavement leave, and family medical leave, but here we are.

RET — Retired. Kind of like “deceased,” but a lot happier.

SUSP — Suspended. I’m not sure why they turned this into a four character code.

Note that a lot of this information is available in the old-school help file that comes with the game. However, it tends to be hidden away among other topic entries, and is not easy to find.