CHICAGO -- Starlin Castro, puzzled after being pulled from a game in a double switch, met with Cubs manager Joe Maddon, who assured the shortstop that he wasn't being traded.
Castro was lifted in the seventh inning on Tuesday night, and then told he wasn't starting on Wednesday. The shortstop wanted -- and got -- an explanation.
"I just asked him, 'Why did you take me out of the game?'" Castro said Wednesday, sitting in the dugout prior to the Cubs game against the Rockies. "He said, 'It's nothing serious. We wanted to put [Chris] Coghlan in the game.