2010 Major League home run champion Jose Bautista is expected to miss the entire three game series versus the Oakland Athletics this week due to “personal family matters, John Lott of the National Post and MLB.com’s Gregor Chisholm report.

Juan Rivera will take Bautista’s place in right field while Edwin Encarnacion will be the team’s designated hitter.

Major League Baseball has a bereavement list that a player can be placed on if they have to attend to a serious illness or death in his (or his spouse’s) immediate family. A player must miss a minimum of three games and a maximum of seven games.  It’s unknown if the Blue Jays have used this, but if they did they can all up a player on the team’s 40-man roster to replace Bautista.