PHILADELPHIA -- Pete Mackanin is hoping Maikel Franco will be helped by some time off. The Phillies manager is just not sure how long that time will last.
Franco was held out of the Phillies' starting lineup on Tuesday night against the Rockies, and could be benched for multiple games as he tries to shake a slow start to the 2017 season.
"Befuddled is a good word," Mackanin said when describing the first quarter of Franco's season. "As much as he works in the cage and on the field in BP, he gets on the field and that head is still flying, the bat is coming out of the zone.