Via ESPN:
“It’s good for him as much as anything,” Maddon said of Russell on Wednesday. “We need to get him back to the player that he had been. He just hasn’t been able to recapture that form. With everything considered, we thought it was best to get him some regular at-bats, hopefully clear his head up a little bit, running the bases, getting the signs, the focus returning.
“It wasn’t sending him out to send a message, necessarily. That wasn’t it. The message is we need to get him better. The primary thing is to get Addison playing baseball like we know that he can.”
Whenever you start to feel sorry for Russell just remember he likes to put his hands on women. Somehow the empathy for what he’s going through just disappears.
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