Why so much hand wringing about Braun recently? So he's hitting like a .180 over his last ten days, he hit .450 over the ten days before that. You're talking about sample sizes that are literally meaningless. Braun has been doing just fine this year. After his struggles to start the season and the talk about the hand injury I remember reading posts saying his career was probably over, and he should be platooned or sit down for a couple days. Turns out ten days of plate appearances aren't all that predictive.