The job is to put the best team on the field, not coddle a guy who's already being paid $19 million to not play. And I say that as someone who still likes Nick. I don't know that Samad Taylor is more likely to help them win - or if he'll even play - this week, but if you're gonna do it, you do it.
And he actually probably appreciates that, because his other complaint about the Phillies was that they left him hanging until spring training started (they actually didn't DFA him until he told them he was planning to report).
Sounds like even if he thought the communication was better there, he didn't enjoy the reality anymore.
"We had conversations with him when we signed him that he was going to earn his playing time," manager Craig Stammen said. "It was probably going to be a different role for him. It wasn't going to be an everyday role that he had been accustomed to the last 12, 15 years of his life playing baseball."
"I think it was tough for him to transition from playing every single day to playing two days, then two days off, then play a day, then another day off," Stammen said. "It's something he probably didn't really love, either. It didn't feel comfortable for him."
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48958449/padres-dfa-nick-castellanos-rough-39-game-stint
