Baseball Chatter 05/31

Last week Pete Mackanin benched Maikel Franco for two games, but instead of talking to him, he waited for Franco to approach him. Last year he did the same thing to Odubel, who never showed up to talk about it because he thought he was getting rest. WTF kind of communication is this?

Baseball Chatter May 24

Lance Lynn took a one hitter into the eighth inning against Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers last night, and it was the first time ever that a team held opponents to three or fewer hits and struck out at least 19, and still lost.

Baseball Chatter 05/13

Matt Harvey threw 106 pitches and only 59 of them were strikes. He has given up 10 home runs and at least five runs in each of his last three starts with a 9:13 K:BB in 14.2 innings.