HRCLL POOL PLAYER POLICY
Teams may suffer player shortages for games due to a variety of causes, including injuries, scheduling conflicts, or other temporary absence. To avoid rescheduling games,
leagues can develop a pool of players from existing regular season teams a list of players that are willing to participate in extra games within their respective division.
HRCLL's Player Agent will create and run player pools. The League's Player Agent will use each pool to assign players to teams that are short players on a rotating basis. It will be determined by where the player sits on the list (eg. first player listed is contacted and given first right of refusal, then second, and so on). When a player
serves as a substitute player, then his/her name will be moved to the bottom of the list and will not become available until the rest of the names are contacted first.
Managers/Coaches will not have the right to randomly pick and choose players from the pool. Once a request for a pool player is submitted to the Player Agent, then the coach must accept and play the substitute player, regardless of ability.
Pool Players will not be allowed to play the position of Pitcher or Catcher. They are to be placed last in the batting order.
Pool players that are called and show up at the game site must play at least nine defensive outs and bat at least once.
No more than two pool players in a game per team. If there is a need for more than two, the team will reschedule the game.
Pool players will use their regular season uniform so as to easily identify the substitute player.