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Matt...I'm not sure the M's all play way...way under established offensive levels.
Figgins career OPS+ is 97, he was an 84 last year.  but in the 2nd half he was 93, and still a terrible offensive performer for the M's.
Kotchman has a career 91...performed at a 73 level last year.  some of that is Safeco...not just a terrible year.  The pont here is that he was a terrible fit!
Guti's carrer OPS+ is 93..he was at 87 last year.
Jack Wilso is a career 78 guy....lasst year was 68.
Lopez was off the most.  From 86 to 71...but I'll remind you that he was still one of the best x-base threats we had.  He had 39 last year. He was WELL below his two previous year totals of 69 and 59.  I keep him, btw.  he'll bounce back.
Jr performed just like a 267 year old guy should have.
The problem wasn't that they all performed WAY below previous studly-like levels.  The problem was that Z put together a team with little chance of ever scoring runs.  if each of those guys had increased their OPS+ by 10 points...we would still have been the worst offensive team in the league.
Lopez was bad, granted.  Wilson, figgins and Guti performed well within expected parameters.  Wilson was exactly what we bought.
Z's muck up was that he THOUGHT Figgins and Kotchman were offensive threats in this lineup. 
that just doesn't compute.
 
Respectfully,
 
moe