My heart doesn't want to give up on Rickie, but my head sort of does. This is shaping up to be his worse offensive season across the board -- average is down, OBP is down, SLG is down, and his OPS+ is a whopping 79. I know he's young, etc., but he's just not getting better at the plate. (And his defense . . . well, we don't even need to go there.) What's really scary to me is that when you see "similar batters through age 24," one of the names that pops up is Dale Sveum. To be fair, though, there are several other serviceable guys on that same list, including Bobby Grich. So I guess the question is: which one is he going to be?