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	<title>Comments on: Blue Jays Call Up Top Prospect Anthony Alford from New Hampshire</title>
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		<title>By: K Shaw</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m confused. You call this a &quot;surprise roster move&quot; but then proceed to list all the reasons it was obvious and rational.

The surprising and inexplicable move was adding Dwight Smith, a move that was only possible because of Pillar&#039;s two-day removal from the 40-man, but would also predictably lead to a roster crunch at the end of those two days. Indeed, the likely outcome would be to DFA Ceciliani. But that raises the question: why not add Smith a day earlier and DFA Ceciliani then?

With Ceciliani&#039;s injury, I suppose the only solution is to put Ceciliani on the 60-day DL (unless you&#039;re allowed to DFA an injured player...? not sure about that). Because DFA-ing Smith would just look silly (Sam Dyson anyone? not that Smith is nearly the prospect Dyson was). Or Coghlan, but I imagine you want to keep your only spare infielder around until at least one of Tulo or JD are back.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m confused. You call this a &#8220;surprise roster move&#8221; but then proceed to list all the reasons it was obvious and rational.</p>
<p>The surprising and inexplicable move was adding Dwight Smith, a move that was only possible because of Pillar&#8217;s two-day removal from the 40-man, but would also predictably lead to a roster crunch at the end of those two days. Indeed, the likely outcome would be to DFA Ceciliani. But that raises the question: why not add Smith a day earlier and DFA Ceciliani then?</p>
<p>With Ceciliani&#8217;s injury, I suppose the only solution is to put Ceciliani on the 60-day DL (unless you&#8217;re allowed to DFA an injured player&#8230;? not sure about that). Because DFA-ing Smith would just look silly (Sam Dyson anyone? not that Smith is nearly the prospect Dyson was). Or Coghlan, but I imagine you want to keep your only spare infielder around until at least one of Tulo or JD are back.</p>
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