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My belief is that Beltre was playing hurt for most of the season -- (just like Branyan for most of the 2nd half). If there is one major area of concern about Wak, it's gotta be an inability (thus far) to tell a creaky player to sit his butt down and get right physically, and THEN he'll get back in the lineup. (Of course, with Sweeney/Griffey eating up two slots, Wak wasn't given a lot of tools to use in this regard.