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Yes...the reason I micro-focused on all of the little indicators and the minute trends I was seeing in Hudson's batting line is...I've seen them before.  These kinds of micro-trends were showing up in Jose Vidro's batting lines too.  He's a similar kind of player...not exactly the same, but built similarly physically.
And the declines were all being caused, in the eyes of Vidro's former team, by the same problem O'Hud faces...he kept getting hurt!  You know why second basemen start getting hurt more as they age?  Because they've lost a step and they don't get out of the way as quickly on DP pivots, they aren't as light on their feet when ranging for a ball, etc.  So it puts more pressure on all those aging joints.  That's Hudson right now.  A fine hitter and an average fielder when healthy...a player who is very unlikely to STAY healthy if he has to play 2B 150 times.