David Ortiz has been in quite the slump since the season started. He hasn’t hit one homerun all season and has a .208 batting average (at the time I wrote this). It’s good to keep faith in your players, but I am getting a bit worried and losing some hope in him. My resident assistant from this past year mentioned to me that all a designated hitter does is practice hitting, as they don’t play the field. Part of me wants the Sox to take him out for a while (they’ve done it for two games to this point) and see if they can get another power hitter on. But another part of me doesn’t want to be so vicious; it wants to give him a chance. Maybe he just needs some time. Or perhaps he should work on getting his batting average up at least. That way, if we don’t get homerun power out of him, we at least get a guy that can drive in some runs or get on base himself. The issue with bigger baseball players like Ortiz is that without power, they lose a lot of oomph. They can’t run very fast, so they can’t steal bases or beat out the throw to first base. I think it’s just a little tough for them and perhaps a bit too one dimensional.