I don't care if he 'kept getting injured', he'd never OPS'd even .900 in a season at any level and now he's OPSing nearly 1.100 when he will turn 30 in a month. It's a load of crap any way you slice it. Becareful with that argument. D Lee went multiple seasons without an OPS over .900 and about the same age posted an OPS of 1.1. Were you calling that a load of crap? Obviously Ludwick isn't as good as Lee, and he won't end up with an OPS of 1.1. But he could still end up at .9-1.0 Derrek Lee made a tangible improvement to his game - learning to hit (especially to pull) the inside pitch. He also had consistent OPS's above .850 at the big league level. Ludwick had been below .850 every full season (more than 200 ABs) he had played since two good years in 2002 and 2003 (which, admittedly, I messed up, he OPS'd in the low 900's in both those years but were still in the minors and not the majors).