With what you are suggesting, Braun is in big trouble next year. I'm not suggesting anything. I'm saying that moving a player in the order may affect his performance, and provided the quickest, easiest example of such that came to mind. It was just a bonus that it involved the very player that Topper suggests would still rake if moved to 8th. And before you cite "small sample," how many games worth of diminished production would you be willing to live with? Were you okay with the Braun/Fielder switch because it was a "small sample" (twice)? If memory serves, pretty much this entire board was in a tizzy over the Braun/Fielder switch, and the general outcry was "switch them back!"