I've been watching this guy very closely now for 4 years. He is stealing money. I'd counter that if you care about this franchise, if YOU are a fan than even if it is counter to what you might "wish", it is time for you to accept the reality of Dunn and his lack of quality production.

I didn't make those numbers up. Those are DUNN's numbers for the past 2 months.

And even after his July where he was so hot that he to some degree saved some of his cumulative season totals, even after that month.... his BA with RISP for season is back to .227 (horrid like it has been the previous 5 years). He leads all outfielders in errors for season. He leads majors in strikeouts. He is hitting sub-.235, slugging sub-.500, OBP sub-.370.  And the little things? forget about the intangible/finer points of game.... They don't exist in Adam Dunn baseball.

He was prepared to take his team to arbitration last year to squeeze out all the $$$ he possibly could. He never played winter ball in his 6 years in the majors despite only playing one full year of high school baseball and having weaknesses in game which needed addressing. When Guillen was outplaying him 10:1 in 2003 and team was contending Dunn clung to his starting position eventhough the team suffered. In his tenure his everyday starts have effectively blocked the development of Jose Guillen, Willy Mo Pena, Ryan Freel, Austin Kearns, Chris Denorfia (just to name the most visible ones).

For those one or two short lived hot streaks each season he can be a force. His "norm" though is at best a wash. And when he is bad (a whole lot of the time) he is awful. And for this, a ~60-70 million payroll team will pay him 10+ million next year barring trade. Time to trade.

If Dunn would have gone in trying to set a winter/arizona league record for homeruns to right field it would have done him nothing.

If Dunn would have recognized and owned that to be a better hitter he needed to improve his contact and alter his approach and that better fitness would help him as well he might have gotten a whole lot from winter/arizona league ball. He could have been begging for the reds to allow him to play winter ball to work on nothing but contact/opposite field hitting and defense. No doubt he didn't.

He also no doubt had an opportunity in 2003 when he was stinking from here to texas to go back to the minors to address issues....no doubt he didn't..

Dunn is all about the $$$, being a pro athlete and living the life..........

He has clearly never been about being the best possible baseball player he can be or about doing the finer things in the game which can help a TEAM win even if they appear in the short run to hurt your personal statistics........

Michael: `Good for them. Our uniforms too? That was clever. We'll never be able to convince anyone we're superior without our uniforms.'

Mini Michael: `Let's get their names, Tony, and--'

Michael: `Oh, Mini, relax,' said the slender man with practiced weariness. `You may be pretty good at moving armored divisions into action, but you're almost useless in a social situation. Sooner or later we'll get our uniforms back, and then we'll be their superiors again. Did they really throw our uniforms out? That was a splendid tactic.'

Somehow I don't think that has changed dramatically in 5 years. More than likely Dunn would have had the same opportunity - Dunn most likely just never wanted to play winter ball or fall ball.

Narron also commented on how winter ball is a great place to work on things with your game......hmmmm......Dunn must have thought he had nothing to work on with his game back in his first couple/few years?........or just didn't care...or too lazy or not interested....etc..etc... whatever the reason, very telling about where Dunn's head was then....

i tried to clean the face up a bit.