Big Floppi

Just a quick on today but it's been on my mind for a few weeks now. Most of the baseball media has been talking about the sudden decline of David Ortiz aka Big Papi. The guy can't hit to save his life at the moment and he has lost just about all his power. Now first off I'm not a Boston fan by any stretch. I liked them when they were the hard luck story of not having won a World Series since 1918. But that has come and gone and now the team and the fans have become almost as arrogant as Yankee fans.

Given the last revelation of Manny and his suspected steroid use I have to wonder if Ortiz was not doing the same and has now stopped for fear of being caught. It has been well documented that steroids make you stronger, but they also sharpen the eye which would certainly help ones ability to make contact with a ball. Big Papi's greatest seasons were with Manny on the team.

Now there are certainly other circumstances that could explain his sudden decline. He did have a wrist injury last year that hampered him. He also doesn't have Manny in the line-up with him anymore which any baseball person would tell you helps any hitter because the last thing a pitcher wants to do is put men on base when a power hitter is coming up. But to drop off this sudden, it's not something I have seen with a major star since I have been following baseball. I hope it's just injury, but all the steroid users have made me quite cynical these days.