Davies will skip start, won't go on DL

[braves guru]

Kyle Davies isn't going on the disabled list, but he is going to the back of the line. The Braves pitcher will skip a start to let his strained oblique heal. "Right now we're putting him at the back end of the rotation and not disabling him," manager Bobby Cox said. "He felt absolutely no pain [in Tuesday's bullpen test], and he threw for a long time." Which begged the question: Why are the Braves skipping his next start?

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