I don't think that I'm alone in my feeling that Macha had it in for Villanueva almost from day one. Like Hardy, he was dumped at low value after being exiled to Nashville. There has also been a double standard on this team, some guys get sent to AAA for stinking up the field, some don't. Well, you can't send every under performing player down at every point. Hardy definitely deserved to be sent down in '09, and Villy got sent down mainly because there wasn't room for him at the time. By his quotes, he didn't seem to feel Macha hated him or the organization was carrying some sort of double standard as you like to say.