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Originally Posted by whoman69
Is Tony back yet? Obiously the GM had to sign off on it too. Who says baseball isn't a business? Only way to get Franklin out of the lineup like this would have been to waive him or put him on the DL. The league frowns highly upon the latter. The Cardinals didn't want to take the chance that what's wrong with Franklin is fixable. They're going to have to find something medically wrong with him and put him on the back burner for awhile.
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Yes, Tony is back. No, Moe doesn't 'sign off' on anything; he dances to LaRussa's tune.
And you act as though waiving Franklin or Batista would've been some catastrophic event - waive 'em. Outright their asses to Memphis and let them request FA, as is their right as vested veterans.
What's wrong with Franklin is that he's 80 yrs old and operated without much margin for error to begin with. It has nothing to do with his problem being 'fixable', it's that LaRussa is a jackass that cares more about 'paying dues' than he does about talent.
This is a guy that is absolutely going to shoehorn Skip Schumaker back into the lineup despite the fact that both Descalso and Craig have proven to be far superior options than him to this point in the season. Afterall, skip's a 'core' player. This is a guy that once said that Molina was his catcher "even if he bats .200" because of his defense, then jettisoned Brendan Ryan in favor of Ryan Theriot because Theriot is a 'dependable veteran'...that can't actually play shortstop. This is a guy that would've absolutely watched Jason Isringhausen destroy the 2006 season had his arm finally not given out - paving the way for Adam Wainwright to save the day.
There's no legitimate baseball reason to this. It's just Tony being Tony.