During a 46-game stretch after the first week of the season, Puig hit .213. “We’ve been consistent with him as far as our desire for him to be a better person and baseball player,” Roberts said on Sunday. During the first weekend of the season, Puig crackled with the electricity of 2013. “There are certainly things we believe he could do better off the field,” Zaidi said. Then, on May 24, Roberts benched Puig for admiring a long, towering drive rather than sprinting out of the box.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 03, 2016 03:29 UTC