Well, our friend last year (the disabled list) was used on Thursday for the first time. The lucky recipient was Frank Francisco. He’s on there due to right elbow soreness. As I sit here and write this, I’m thinking he hasn’t pitched at all in a game. He might have, but I can’t recall at the moment.
Anyway, he’ll definitely start the season on the DL, which will jumble up our setup situation for a bit. I don’t think it will be the major impact that some people think it will. Sure, it will affect things, but I don’t think we’re going to completely fall apart over this. Not unless CoCo can’t go, either.
One interesting side note. If Francisco comes off after the actual 15 days, he’ll be activated early enough to make our first trip to Oakland, which is on Apr 17-19th. And when he does go back, you know we’re gonna have to see the chair tossing incident again. Or worse, the totally innocent fans who were hit by the chair talk about it. So there’s a little part of me that wants him to stay on the DL past our trip to Oakland. Unfortunately, it’ll happen eventually as we go there several times.