Tyler Colvin Too Good To Start

The rookie sensation is back on the bench tonight after two consecutive starts in which he went 4-for-7 with three RBIs and two walks. Plus, he doesn't hop and he's apparently not afraid of the wall or the ball.

"You have to get at-bats for Tyler Colvin," Steve Stone said last week on Chicago Tribune Live. "You either get him at-bats in the major leagues, in which case you have $14 million or $19 million on the bench . . . or you gotta send him to the minor leagues."

Stone said it's unrealistic to expect either Alfonso Soriano or Kosuke Fukudome to produce off the bench. On the other hand, fourth outfielder Xavier Nady still can't throw, creating more of an opening for Colvin than imagined when he made the squad after a torrid spring.

Either way, it's classic Jim Hendry, who has a knack for creating rosters overflowing at some positions and starving at others - and bad contracts all the way around.

"He's gonna start for them every day in the not-so-distant future," Stone said of Colvin, "[but] getting 17 at-bats in two weeks isn't going to get the job done."