Also, let's dispel the notion that 2 months of awful play aren't a problem, even if you go on some kind of binge to make it look better. Every game you played in those two months you became a liability to your team winning games. I get some guys are streaky, but I'd like their hot/cold streaks to be much shorter lived than something you can describe as taking place over "months". And we're not even on "months" any more, we're on "years". I think his waning bat speed is sapping his ability to hit and I don't think it's coming back any time soon. And we basically have him cemented into a full-time gig at 1B for the forseeable future. That's a huge problem.