Hairston to DL, Majewski to Bereavment List

by MixFMKyle on Jun 10, 2008 2:33 PM EDT Comment 18 comments

http://www.thelotd.com/lance

Reds moves
Today the Reds placed on the 15-day disabled list IF Jerry Hairston (broken left thumb), selected from Class AAA Louisville the contract of IF Jolbert Cabrera (#54), placed on the bereavement list RHP Gary Majewski (wife, Melissa, is having a baby) and recalled from Louisville LHP Danny Herrera (#52).
Hairston suffered the injury in the first inning last night at Fla sliding into second base on a steal.
Cabrera (first name pronounced HOLE-bert) has spent the season with the Bats (57g, .288, 16 2b, 5 3b, 4hr, 30rbi, 5sb), where he played OF (18g), 3B (16g) and 1B (12g).

Cabrera has hit 2 of his 4 dingers in the last 10 days, so maybe he is on a hot streak. We will see.

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I hope it's not a complicated birth for Melissa

The headline made me think of Gary’s sister’s deadly accident of last year. I was hoping it wasn’t more sadness for that guy.

Some muthafucka’s always trying to ice-skate uphill

by Man Mountain on Jun 10, 2008 2:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

no kidding

No one should ever have to go through that. Good luck Gary & Melissa

Hope Springs Eternal! Go Reds

by Caleb on Jun 10, 2008 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hope not

This doesn’t sound like the typical use of the bereavement list. According to Cot’s, the Commissioner must approve and teams can’t use the list “to replace a player who leaves his club for the birth of a child”.

by ken on Jun 10, 2008 3:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wow, that's the rule, isn't it.

Well I guess this qualifies under “family emergency” then, doesn’t it? Hopefully this works out for the magic man.

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Jun 10, 2008 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

calling jolbert cabrera an infielder is a little disingenuous

he’s a 3B/OF/DH. I don’t really see how he fills the cap left by Hairston at short. I think an all-Phillips middle infield is the emergency failsafe should janish go down, or maybe they think Edwin can play short. Odd.

What do you mean, "blank slate"?

by boobs on Jun 10, 2008 2:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

How this went down

“We need a back up shortstop. Hmm. Tell Louisville send us the most Latino sounding guy available.”

And by Phillips and Phillips, do you mean Andy Phillips at short?

Some muthafucka’s always trying to ice-skate uphill

by Man Mountain on Jun 10, 2008 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

as was pointed out last night

i would assume brandon would have to move to short, considering he’s played 5 more games in the bigs at short than andy. by that, i mean he’s played 5 games at short. let’s hope janish doesnt go down in the next few days, because no matter what we’re going to have a non-shortstop at short. i like brandon the most there among him, andy, edwin and jolbert.

What do you mean, "blank slate"?

by boobs on Jun 10, 2008 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs