damon and abreu continue to really, really struggle. i think they're each having the worst years of their career (odd, since they both really had their best season last year). any step forward they take is immediately followed by 20 backward. they'll each have a good game, then go 0-50 in their next series.
damon is batting under 240 right now. when you have a 240 hitter batting leadoff, you're almost automatically putting yourself in 1-out inning. abreu is surrounded by good hitters, but damon's spot has too much pressure on him and on the rest of the team. i think he could use a few days dropped down to 8 or 9, as the torre-special "surrogate" leadoff hitter, and bring melky up to leadoff for a while, until things look nicer
