The All Star break cuts the minimum DL stay nearly in half. I would bet that is a big reason he's on the DL since he won't be missing the full allotment of games. Well today is 1 and we have 8 games to go til the break, so that's 9, so he's pretty much missing a full DL stay. But point taken on that, wouldn't have mattered if he played Saturday or not. His injury is probably not of the DL type but they probably see this as a great time to get him rested and healed up for the playoff push. Very calculated move.