The calender has hit June and written notices of Big Papi’s baseball death are starting to appear everywhere. Today we had this from the Globes’ Eric Wilbur:
Players have emerged from slumps in the past. And maybe there is hope for 2010. But right now, no signs point to a sudden turnaround any time soon. Shelf him and pray. That’s about the best option.
There is nothing positive to take from Ortiz’s lost season. The Fenway Park plaque boasting him as the Greatest Clutch Hitter reads like a gravestone these days, memorializing the death of a Red Sox legend’s career
and this from ESPN’s Bill Simmons:
Whatever the case, it’s clear that David Ortiz no longer excels at baseball. This has been banged home over and over again for two solid months. It’s ruined the season for me thus far. The best way I can describe Fenway during any Papi at-bat is this: It’s filled with 35,000 parents of the same worst kid in Little League who dread every pitch thrown in the kid’s direction. There is constant fear and sadness and helplessness. Nobody knows what to do.
I still haven’t given up on Big Papi altough I have benched him on my fantasy team. Give him two more weeks at the 6th spot to get it going, if he is still batting below .200 and hasn’t hit another homer than I too will join those writing about his baseball death.
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