When Mike Lowell or Dustin Pedroia or David Ortiz goes to the plate, name and face and statistics larger than life on a Jumbotron in center field, it's difficult for them to keep the head down and not see the evidence before them. All of these former .300 hitters are off to particularly slow starts. (Full article: 876 words)

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