Athletics placed RHP Andrew Brown on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to May 14, following an emergency appendectomy.
Brown will probably need about three weeks off. He has a 2.45 ERA on the season, so this is a big loss, especially on the heels of Santiago Casilla's injury. Joey Devine will begin getting more work in close games.

-Rotoworld

Lenny DiNardo got the call up, though I think I'd have prefered the A's to finally call up Ziggy, who has been doing awesome in Triple A, as opposed to DiNardo who is doing pretty bad down in AAA thus far.

Like Rotoworld said, this is a huge hit to the bullpen. We've lost our best two relievers back to back, and with the offense producing like the numbers said they should have, this will be doubly hard on us.

What this should mean is that we will be seeing Embree and Devine a lot more often now. It also means that Geren might actually remember to use Gaudin more often rather than treating him like the 7th member of the pen.

But probably the worst thing is that we now have two end bench men, who do not really inspire much confidence in A's fans.