Please consider the following sentence:
The coach took out the veterans and put in the rookies.
My question is this:
Why is it "put in" and not "put on"?
Thank you.
He put rookie players in the game. He put rookie players on the field.
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He put rookie players in the game.
He put rookie players on the field.