Cardinals Send Mark DeRosa to 15-Day DL

by Matt Buggenhagen on Jul 7, 2009 2:42 PM EDT Comment 6 comments

Associated Press

ST. LOUIS (AP) - The St. Louis Cardinals are placing newly acquired utilityman Mark DeRosa on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to July 1, because of a strained left wrist.

The Cardinals also announced before Tuesday night's game at Milwaukee that infielder Brian Barden and outfielder Nick Stavinoha are being recalled from Triple-A Memphis. St. Louis is sending infielder Tyler Greene to Memphis.

DeRosa, acquired last month from the Cleveland Indians, was injured during a June 30 game. He got off to a stuttering start with the Cardinals, going 0 for 9 in three games after batting .270 with 13 homers and 50 RBIs with Cleveland.

Barden batted .238 with four home runs and 10 RBIs in 51 games for the Cardinals this season, earning top NL rookie honors in April. Stavinoha batted .234 with one homer and 13 RBIs in 27 games with St. Louis this season.

Ouch! Already, not a good sign for the Cardinals.

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Does this entice the Cards to go after Holliday?

What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.

by winchester5 on Jul 7, 2009 3:30 PM EDT reply actions

not anymore than they already would've.

you have to remember, the 15 day DL includes days when the ASG is going on. We didn’t really expect him back before then anyways. Or at least I hadn’t. “strained” anything seems to always get worse as we get closer.

"If you believe in telekinesis, raise my hand."

by tigr on Jul 7, 2009 3:46 PM EDT up reply actions