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Royals looking to give Infante extra off-days

CLEVELAND -- Omar Infante's days of being the everyday second baseman for the Royals may be fading away.

Infante originally was scheduled to be off on Friday -- that was before Mike Moustakas' sore thumb made him a late scratch, and forced manager Ned Yost to insert Christian Colon at third base instead of second base.

The original plan to rest Infante after an off-day wouldn't have been just a normal day off.

"A little bit more to it than that," Yost said. "I was thinking of getting CC [Colon] in there more.