Mustard = Franmil Reyes ?????????????

 Am I the only one who thought the timing of the spoof about the Guardians sending Mustard to the minors was in very bad taste given that we just DFA'd, and subsequently lost on waivers, Franmil Reyes. 

Any other time it would have been cute but I thought the 'press release' rang a little too true to what the Guardians were saying about Reyes.  

Hey, as I said before, I think there is more to the backstory than what we are hearing.  Franmil could have been sent to Columbus and left there for 1+ seasons at the cost of what his arbitration settlement would have been.  Yes, around $4.5 million is a lot to pay a guy who is ending up at AAA but the Guardians could have always released him next spring if he didn't do what they asked him to do or they could have just non-tendered him this winter.   Unless there was some reason they didn't want him around their AAA prospects.  Bad work ethic?  Bad-mouthing the organizaiton?   Don't know and, well, I really don't know.

But I think someone in the promotions department should probably understand what is going on with the team before they do something like this.   

I imagine, somewhere on the internet, someone else is asking whether the Guardians are saying that they think Franmil Reyes is only worth a container of mustard in trade.

Losing Reyes will obviously come back to bite the Guardians in the butt if he gets his act together, given how much control they still had before he became a free agent.   This charade is only going to rub salt the wound and might make him more determined to show the Guardains what they lost when they let him go.   As someone who has also become a Cardinals fan from living in St. Louis for almost 30 years, I don't really want to help the Cubs get better.