Wait, so you can bring a player up and then just move him to the DL? For some reason I thought that you had to call someone up and give them playing time so as to not "cheat the system" in a sense. I mean, the paper move makes sense to me, I just don't understand why it's possible in the first place to call someone up and place them on the DL right away.
But hey, whatever works to get Pedroia up here to see how this kid can handle the majors...