He's a hitting coach. This isn't a serious question is it? I'd officially blame Rudy for approximately 1.75% of this mess. When you have established veterans like Lee and Ramirez sucking, it's not the hitting coaches fault. The hitting coach is more or less an inter-changable part even though we may have one of the best. Veterans tends to know their swings better than anyone and work themselves out of their slumps. And there is even evidence that Rudy might actually be helping a lot of guys when you look at Soriano's, Colvins, Castro's stats and even Theriots was mashing (hitting soft singles) the ball early until his recent slump and there were plenty of reports of the amount of time he's spent with Rudy