Take a look at sportsline's retarded prediction for adam dunn:

It's safe to say that pitchers have figured out how to work Dunn, who has batted a measly .205 since the 2002 All-Star break. He's a selective hitter who knows how to draw a walk, but it's more a result of his being more apt to take a pitch than being able to identify his pitch. Dunn seems like he's swinging entirely defensively, and pitchers are exploiting that weakness, as evidenced by his high strikeout totals. He should be fully healed from a thumb injury that cost him the final six weeks of last season, but needs to display more aggressiveness in the spring before being expected to break out offensively. Dunn has the talent to rack up huge stat totals if he makes the necessary improvements, but right now expect him to be a real drain on your batting average.

in many ways, dunn is the mascot of our team. everyone focused on his low average last year. Yeah it was bad, but guess what, average is the one stat that flucuates the most over the career path of a hitter and it is also very poor at predicting future sucess. call me crazy, but the fact that he had 27 home runs at the age of 23 (roughly) says he knows something about selecting "his pitch". And, the high strike out rate is the exact OPPOSITE of being defensive in your approach. Too often, batters are so afraid of striking out that they choke up with two strikes and just try and make contact. That often results in lazy grounders. Adam Dunn is NOT like that. He controls the strike zone, and takes and rakes.

As for Tuna saying Dunn hasn't been good this year, he must be looking at different stats.

.333/.484/.875 before today (so add 2/2 with 2 runs, a homer, and 2 walks). He's obviously playing above his head, but there's no reason to believe he wont be a stud this season.

Tuna and adam should start an anti-dunn fan club. People like me pj and steve will ride him like the fantasy stud that he is.