Bench Adam Dunn

     White Sox slugger Adam Dunn is currently in a deep slump. Since the season began, he's only hit 5 HR's while totaling a .181 batting average and a rather weak .331 slugging percentage. Dunn's power numbers are way down from last season. At the end of May in 2010, he had already hit 10 HR's and racked up a .616 SLG. He's been doing so poorly at the plate, that manager Ozzie Guillen has dropped Dunn to seventh in the batting order.
     The most concerning stat of all may be Dunn's strikeout total.  We all know that many power hitters tend to rack up punch outs with their long balls, but Dunn is on pace to strikeout 203 times this year! That would be a career high. He's also on pace for a less than impressive 15 HR's, another potential career worst.
     Dunn may improve as the season progresses. His career numbers show that his strikeouts tend to decrease after the all-star break, but so do his home runs. My advice would be to bench Dunn and see if he breaks out of this intense slump. You have nothing to lose by starting someone like Nationals' OF Michael Morse in his place, who has 1B eligibility. Morse has been hot in May, hitting .389 with 5 HR's, four of which he's belted in the last week.