Was just gonna say the same thing. Wow people take a breath. Braun has had a 900 OPS the second half, not sure if it has dipped below though as recently it seems hits aren't falling. And as noted his bad luck stuff has been there all year. He's basically been fine/adequate. Santana was bad, went to AAA and only did ok there. But he hits two HRs back to back to days and now he's got BRaun's spot for good. Don't get me wrong, Braun isn't what he was and will spend time on the DL, so we do need another OF. But if this year taught us anything depth is important. I hope Santana is back and does well next year, but there is a need and role for both. The odd man out in this situation will be Thames now that Jesus is a near every day guy. Not sure how long ago that .900 second half OPS was for Braun because he was at .789 heading into this game. I don't think that anyone is saying Braun sucks, just that his role is pretty easily replaceable at this point in his career by whoever and it's definitely not a great allocation of our resources for that much of our limited budget at this time in his career. But, it's a sunk cost, so we have to deal, and that's why he hasn't been the odd man out.