DETROIT -- Among Francisco Rodriguez's more bizarre gripes when he vented to a reporter this week about his diminished role was that Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus talks to the media more often than he does to him.
Perhaps K-Rod should read what Ausmus has been saying.

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If he did, he'd find that Ausmus has all but declared him a saint among men.