It is all about getting Betemit at bats. Betemit is hitting so poorly that he wont get a shot in the bigs. But dropping him to AAA would have put him on waivers, something he wouldnt clear. So putting him on the DL allows him to "rehab" and he should be hitting by the time we call him back up. Something akin to what we did with Duncan. It isnt like Duncan couldnt have helped us, but he wasnt hitting well in limited duty so we sent him down. Now he's hitting .500 with 3 bombs in 20 ABs.