Either the stress of being righty is so bad that it crushes your career no matter where you play (Sexson) or it only crushes you as long as you play in Safeco (Beltre). Certainly the park hurt Beltre, I'm just saying it didn't psychologically cripple him. Beltre's 2007 would have been a near-MVP caliber year as well if the beginning of the bone spurs that would hinder his 2008 and ruin his 2009 hadn't creapt up in September (If I remember correctly, he was originally diagnosed with tendonitis and wasn't rediagnosed with bone spurs until he would have to miss a large chunk of 2008 with surgery, so he put off the surgery until late September 2008). He was batting .282/.329/.503 through September 11th that year. He would finish the year batting .236/.258/.350 with 17 Ks to 2 BBs over his final 82 plate appearances. Still, his season line that year included 41 doubles and 26 home runs in about the same number of plate appearances this year.