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- Updated: May 16, 2016
LOS ANGELES — Managing Yasiel Puig has been an exercise in handling a frustrated player during manager Dave Roberts’ first year with the Dodgers.
After a week in which Puig made solid contact with the ball for the most part, but only had one game with significant success, Roberts gave the right fielder the day off Monday to rest, both physically and mentally.
“There’s a little reaction after certain at-bats where he gets a little more emotional than he has been,” Roberts said before the Dodgers opened the Freeway Series against the Angels at Dodger Stadium. “That is a sign, as a player, where you get frustrated. For me, it’s just to take him out of that situation, give him a day to catch his breath and get him back in there. In the beginning part of the season, he hasn’t shown too much of that, so, yeah, he’s frustrated.”
Roberts said …
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