On Sunday the Blue Jays put OF/DH Frank Catalanotto on the 15-day disabled list and recalled left-handed reliever Dave Maurer from Syracuse. It's being reported the move will end the Cat's season as he's going to have surgery (ouch!) on his troublesome groin.

It's too bad Cat's season is over as I do think he is one of the better hitters in the game. The guy has an Ichiro like ability to get on-base via the hit. I've enjoyed watching him hit over the past couple of years and I hope we bring him back next year. Hopefully, having the surgery now will mean he's ready to go at 100% next year. I haven't heard an exact date for the surgery but I'll let everyone know when I do.

I like the idea of bringing Maurer up from 'Cuse. He's got a 3.50 ERA in 41 games and 61.2 innings. He's SO 61 and walked 26. He is a little homer happy as he's given up 6 of these in his 61.2 innings. Kershner has been getting hammered and I'm sick of Nakamura's inconstancy so in that regard I think it's a good call. Plus, DH/OF AB's can now be rotated between Reed Johnson and Gabe Gross. At least until September when we'll most likely see Eric Crozier get the call. He's the guy we got from Cleveland in the Josh Phelps trade. I'd like to see what his .294/.381/.546 line would do for the big club.

One more thing on the Cat. At this point, I do hope we can bring him back. I think he's a good, relatively cheap bat who can help us next year. Of course, you never know who will be cut loose in the off-season and what someone like Crozier (who's a lefty hitter as well) might do. I bet we could find Cat 500 AB's next year between LF, RF, DH and 1B (Why not? Gomez has played there a couple of times).