roosevelt brown? seriously, hoffpauir's not the answer to anything. but there may be some complacency from fukudome. am i sensing complacency? yes, i think i am. Hoffpauir has been hitting the cover off the baseball all season long. He also did well in his short time in the Majors. Something needs to change. Fukudome has an OPS of .631 the 2nd half of the season and has been awful since May. yeah, because this season is quickly spiraling out of control. Well, granted, everything is obviously going well, overall. We'd still be better off without a black hole in the lineup, especially in a corner OF position that should be so easy to fill with ~.800 OPS production. I don't think Hoffpauir is the answer to anything, either, though. Not sure what we can do at this point outside of giving Kosuke a few days off. You would think that with his ability to work counts, he'd be less prone to long slumps, but he is adjusting to a new and more difficult league.