But seriously the missed time does affect you just as the missed time hurt Ike it takes time and regular ABs vs MLB pitching to get up to speed and hit them.

But it seems that in the past whenever bay came close to breaking out he would get hurt again and miss even more time…

Truth is while it might be possible for him to get back to what he was we really shouldn’t bother trying as by the time he does figure it out his contract will be up anyway!

Lets just call it a failure and move on.
WHile it’s a shame we will have wasted all that money on him it would be an even greater shame to waste a roster spot on top of it!

It takes a while to recover totally, and then he gets hurt again. I think the way he’s always banging into the wall. shows he’s not athletically gifted. Yes, he’s fearless, and plays hard for the team, but athletic is a different story. I mean, countless other outfielders manage to avoid the wall day-in and day-out.

I don’t know, maybe the conks on the head, and not being supremely athletic have conspired to rob him of his batting skills.

Lack of confidence causes you to not commit and adds delay to the start of a swing that needs to start sooner to get the head of the bat into the strike zone.

In Bay’s case he has tried to compensate but then gets out front and rolls over on it which explains al;l the Weak ground balls to the right side.

If he could just stay healthy long enough he could possibly pull himself out of it!

That confidence is also causing him to wait for a pitch that is never going to get better than the ones he has been taking….
As was pointed out he takes the first two fat fastballs and then weakly sways at the breaking ball and rolls over on it.

He should go up there and be more aggressive but I think his confidence is shot and truth is he should have been left in the Minors during his rehab until he hit down there before he was thrown back into facing the MLB pitching.

It started with the fences killing his confidence followed by missing half a season.
The Confidence hurt his decisiveness at the plate which hurt his Bat Speed.
And the myriad of injuries he has suffered trying to make up for that bat in the field has caused him to lose even more bat speed.

Pitchers lose MPH on thier fastball and can overcome it if they learn to pitch smarter!

But batters losing bat speed can hardly ever compensate for it because they don’t call the shots on what pitch they get to swing at!
And the Pitcher eats them up for breakfast!

If Bay hadn’t had such a poor tenure here, that would be a different story.

Defensively, he’s fearless and above-average good. But he sucks so much as a hitter that none of us needs to think of indulging his inabilities with bat in hand any longer.

I understand you like him and all that, but the guy has stunk up the joint.. He’s not the player he once was, with us he was a big bust. Good luck trying to tell that to the fans who pay the tickets to go see this guy go 0-4 with 2 or 3 K’s in the game… He makes $16 million a year, you think he’s worry? Financially he’s set for life, he sucks at his job yet he gets paid a lot of money.
And please, don’t give me that crap that he got like this due to his concussion.. the guy had 6 HR and 38 RBI by july 25th of 2010, so no excuse to what’s been happening, since coming to NY he’s been a big bust.