I have been one of the primary whiners recently about underperforming players. Mainly because I have a team that was supposed to win this year and struggle next year and now I see my chance this year slipping away and I am very frustrated.

You make some good points regarding the aggregation of stats over several leagues. And I am glad that someone took the time to investigate a player on that level. I have often wondered what a compilation of results like that would look like but have not had the time or energy to compile it myself. It would in truth be unrealistic to expect exact replication of stats. But how much deviation is realistic? As the owner of the .206 Brian Giles (with a .696 OPS) I am extremely frustrated. In theory I could have an INN CF that had 50 plate appearances and a .675 OPS and if he performed at his expected level he would be almost as good as the Brian Giles that I have. Now that is very, very frustrating. Brian Giles doesn't have to play like Brian Giles in every league... but he should't play like Brian L. Hunter either. --- ok I am starting to whine again I should stop.

I just wonder if anyone else has had as much bad luck as I have had.

I have the .206 Brian Giles, the .238 Jeff Bagwell, the .268 Chipper Jones, and the 7.14 Jose Rosado on the same team.

The only players I have that are doing better than they should are Jerry Hairston (who is only a platoon player) and some relief pitchers that have thrown less than 30 innings.

Oh... and Jon Lieber and Jeff Conine who I foolishly traded away early in the season to acquire top starting pitching.

Oh well. I guess I should hang in there. Even with almost my entire team underperforming for the first 60 games I am still 30-30 and 2 games behind the division leader. And it would be tough for things to get much worse unless Jeff Kent all of a sudden turns into Mickey Morandini and Kevin Millwood turns into the 2000 version of Jose Lima. Things have to get better (I think/hope).