MASN’s Roch Kubatko reported earlier today that Tatum was optioned back to AAA Norfolk, to make room for Wieters off the DL.
http://www.masnsports.com/school_of_roch/2010/07/tatum-optioned.html
If you read Tatum’s comments that he received from MacPhail, it is clear that Tatum’s time in Minors figures to be short. What that in-mind, I am not going to kill the O’s for this move.
That said, I am still puzzled about the need to carry 8 pitchers and limit yourself with a 3 man bench.
It is not as if it was not known when Wieters was coming off the DL. With that known date in-mind, the O’s should have been pushing harder to find a home for Ohman (San Francisco? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/giants/detail?blogid=22&entry_id=68583) before Wieters came off the DL.
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