I remember it well amigo. It may have been something like, “we’re going to wait until he gets going” but was the same concept. Then a hole opened up for him..
As for “reasons”, it’s because you can’t think past Fangraphs. Baseball still has a human element. Biggio at one time looked like a core piece and so it’d be pretty demoralizing to just be like “you’re really sucking it up and need to go to the minors”…rather, it’d be better to bring up the nagging things he’s been battling and say take a bit of time to get your body right, you’re pressing right now etc