What he said was,
"I feel like I was on track out of Spring Training the first two weeks, when I was playing. I felt like I was driving the ball and producing. But a couple lefties don't show up in a few series, and you don't play. The league's pretty tough. It's tough for a lot of guys playing every day. Not playing every day, it can be even tougher."
Therein lies the problem. Jason Lane still thinks of himself as a starter. No problem with that, but just like Russ Johnson before him, if he doesn't want to be a right handed bat off the bench late in the game, then his mindset will be all wrong for the job. The fear sometimes for these guys is that they'll do an excellent job coming off the bench and thus never make it back to being a starter.
In essence, I would be shocked if Lane ever plays for the Houston Astros (barring injury of course) again. I expect him to clock some PT in Round Rock and be packaged in a deal at the trading deadline. Maybe as the proverbial PTBNL. He wants to start but there is no such job for him here doing that.
