Jason Mackey

You're not going to bench him.

There's just so much there that you need to figure out.

You need to see improvements.

I thought it was interesting talking to Ben Charrington on the show we do now on Sundays and talking about the World Baseball Classic sort of disrupting some of the progress Cruz made.

Tony Beasley's been working with Cruz, talking to me about the same thing.

It was great that he went to the WBC, but I do think it disrupted his spring training a little bit.

I say all that to say we just need to have a little bit of patience here.

And I know that's very hard.

And I know that he does things that make you want to rip your hair out.

I get it.

But he has to play.

The only way for him to get through that stuff is to play and become better for it.

And last night, the play with him and Reynolds, man, that's not on Cruz.

That's the center fielder's ball.

Reynolds needs to get out of the way there.

No, I don't.

I mean, if I look at opening day, you've got to have sunglasses on, man.

That's a lack of awareness.

It's plain and simple.

But last night, I mean, they're all different plays, Austin.