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Frustratingly inconsistent hitters

By Brendan Roberts
ESPN.com

Thursday, June 18, 2009

As long as the numbers are there in the end. Yeah, right, forget that. We want steady production from our hitters. We expect that when we check our team box scores each morning, we'll see plenty of 2-for-4 games, maybe some ribbies, a homer or three from our team, a steal, etc. For those of us who check our teams daily, seeing an aggregate .118 team batting average for a night can ruin our day -- or at least the next five minutes. When we look at the past seven days and see Jason Kubel or Hunt ...

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