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 05/25

Cardinals pitchers have three earned runs and a .72 ERA over their last 37 ⅓ innings – seven earned runs with a 1.25 ERA over their last 50 innings and have allowed only 67 hits over the past 104 1/3 innings. That is 5.78 hits per nine innings.