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Why do so many writers in the baseball universe refer to Kevin Youkilis as over-rated or predict that his career will start to backslide? Many of these pundits point to the fact he had a bad back throughout much of last year, and that back issues tend to linger and never go away—especially for a 31-year-old.  They assume that his back condition will be chronic, and with less time on the field he'll have fewer opportunities to produce runs. Yet, the truth of the matter is that in spite of last year’s back woes, “Youk” still managed to post a career high in OBP (.413), OPS (.961) and OPS+ (145). Yeah, I know, he also posted a career high in strikeout percentage (21.3 percent); but there are other metrics that suggest the spike in K-rate is attribut ...

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Article written by Jeffrey Brown