PHOENIX • The answer to the question Cardinals manager Mike Matheny asked rather rhetorically Monday in the dugout was illuminated not too far from his field of vision. On a three-story-tall display board hanging over the right-field seats was his lineup, with Aledmys Diaz’s .480 average glowing next to his name.
The board made it clear that it’s not just what Diaz is hitting, it’s where.
“You look up there and see .480. Does that mean you want to throw him in three hole?” said Matheny, when asked about keeping Diaz in the eighth spot.