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Thanks, Gordon!
As for Franklin:
In this case, the organization can rightly claim that Franklin has "stuff to work on" in AAA.  In prior years, Franklin, despite strong overall stats, had a glaring problem: he both (1) failed to hit the ball hard against LHP and (2) struck out too much against LHP.
It was a deadly combination, and my issue was: if you rush him to the majors, do you just "live with it" and hope he can figure it out under the microscope?  or do you sit him against LHP in the majors?  In which case how is he expected to improve?
So I had no problem with keeping him in the minors until there was improvement there.
Early returns indicate great progress.  His ISO vs. LHP is up to .143 (up from .093 last year and .097 in his healthy 2010) and his K% is way down (generally, and against LHP) -- in 2010 his K% vs. LHP was 25.7%, this year so far 9.1%.
But ... it's only 11 plate appearances.  That ISO is entirely attributable to one double in seven at-bats.
I don't think you can make any kind of meaningful judgment off of 11 plate appearances.
So I don't view anything as a vast conspiracy or crippling bureaucratic mentality (and I'm the first one to mock bureaucrats).
I think they'll give him a bit more time to make sure he's grooved-in with the right-hand swing.  The jump to the majors can easily mess guys up even when they are crushing AAA, as we saw with Saunders and Smoak multiple times.