The Brewers HAD to be thinking that he would be the ONLY real power threat after Prince and thus gave him WAY too much money.

How much should they have given him, when guys like Pierre cashed in like they did? There was a discussion about his contract compared to other center fielders not not too long ago. As jacob said there: "3 years/$23.25M for randy winn. there's your replacement level contract. almost 8 million a year for a no-hit CF. Yeah, billy's contract is looking mighty fine. the 5th year option is looking better all the time too."

PLUS - He should not be the CF on this team - it should be GWYNN.

Hall should be more like a Caesar Tovar style player. A guy that players every position and does it well.  A super fill-in that can hit!!

But what if everyone's healthy? Leave Hall's bat on the bench?

Last year, Hall hit the ball real hard in most of his at-bats, and we haven't seen that this year.  Instead, Hall routinely grounds out and that speaks to either a change in his approach, or that he's not seeing the ball at all.  If he were getting the same numbers, and hitting a lot of fly ball outs and lineouts, I'd be inclined to think that last year was a huge aberration.  Instead, it appears that he did a lot of tinkering in the offseason with his swing, and his approach at the plate, and it killed his ability to crush the ball.

As Billy's number one fan, I've actually been encouraged by the strikeouts lately.  It tells me that he's giving up on whatever he's been trying to do up there, and relying more on his natural ability to hit the ball.  I hope it comes back soon.

As far numbers.....RBI is a measure of how well your teammates get on base, and doesn't really reflect on the hitter.  I do expect Hall to hit 25 HR a year, though.