Cubs roster move: Seiya Suzuki placed on restricted list

Cubs outfielder Seiya Suzuki was placed on the paternity list last Saturday. The rules for the paternity list state that a player can miss at least one, but no more than three games before being reinstated.

Suzuki missed games Saturday, Sunday and Monday, so there were two choices before Tuesday’s game:

Put Suzuki on the injured list — he did suffer a minor injury last week, or

Put him on the restricted list.

The Cubs chose the latter, and oddly, with no announcement by press release or otherwise, just quietly making the move. Thanks to BCB reader BeerCub for pointing this out on the Cubs website transactions list.

There are reports that Suzuki went back to Japan to attend to the birth of his…