[Anhil8tor]

What do you attribute Ortiz's power outage to?

[WoolyGoat]

age/declining skills...although lack of steroids is certainly a possibility.

if he was hitting .280-.300 with 2 homers, that would be one thing...but he's under .200, and looks even worse than that. just seems like it's much more than missing power that used to be supplied by steroids.

i think he's probably at least 2 years older than we think he is.

[WoolyGoat]

aaaaand a half hour after I write this he hits a 2-run BOMB to dead center off of AJ Burnett.

very good sign.