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I would argue that there's a difference between optioning a player to the minors and placing him on the 60-day DL with no good cause. They may both achieve the same effect - halting the player's accumulation of service time - but there's a built-in limit to how many time a team can option a player. There is no such limit to 60-day DL use, so left unchecked a team could throw players on there whenever they wanted to avoid service time accumulation.
Real life players already get upset about being optioned to the minors - imagine how they'd react to being placed on the 60-day DL with a day-to-day injury! Of course no team would ever do that. They'd burn their bridges with the player and invite a grievance from the Players' Union.
Now whether OOTP leagues should allow it, that's up to the individual commissioners. I guess for me it's important enough that I'm willing to police 60-day DL usage. I want my owners to play the game but not necessarily "game the system", if you take my meaning. Others may take a more laissez faire attitude to the issue, and there's certainly nothing wrong with that.
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