Dusty Baker bristles at Frazier question

Up goes Rolen!

Then the bristling started.

“Plus, I don’t want to be answering this every day about Scottie and Frazier,” Baker said. “I’m going to start telling you from now on ‘manager’s decision,’ like basketball. I don’t know what I’m to do, but I’ll figure it out.”

“You get tired of talking about it. It’s going to be talked about over and over for the rest of the year. Let them talk and let me work.”

...“Eventually, the job’s going to be Frazier’s,” Baker said. “Not to say when, but Scottie’s not a spring chicken. Frazier has a good attitude about things.”

Frazier is the latest extra player who’s become the People’s Choice. Fans wanted Chris Heisey over Jonny Gomes, Paul Janish over Orlando Cabrera and so on.

“Since I’ve been here there have been six or seven guys everybody fell in love with,” Baker said. “The next month you don’t hear their name. The next year or whatever. I’m just trying to win ballgames.”