Cardinals' Holliday likely to be sent to disabled list

[cruzg24]

St. Louis Cardinals slugger Matt Holliday(notes) is about to take a 15-day unwanted vacation. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Holliday will likely be put on the disabled list Thursday for a strained left quadriceps that just won't go away.
"We were aggressive, we tried, he still wasn't getting to the point where we were comfortable letting him continue to go through the same pattern," Cards GM John Mozeliak said, according to the paper. "So we'll give him a few days, calm him down. We're very optimistic."
Holliday had an MRI Wednesday. "It looks like it's getting better, but rather than push it on June 1, it doesn't make a lot of sense," Mozeliak said, the Post-Dispatch reports. "So we'll go with a conservative treatment after trying an aggressive treatment."
Holliday is batting .342 with six homers and 31 RBIs this season.

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

[Lake Louise]

You can understand why they don't want to see him on the DL. He's been one of their biggest bats, aside from Pujols, since he's come to St. Louis. It's his second time on the DL. Although, the first time wasn't injury related. Hopefully for them he isn't there very long. Cardinals are doing well, and he's been a big part of it.