Mike Cameron

The Brewers exercised the 10 million dollar option on Centerfielder Mike Cameron's contract today. I, for one, am not that happy about it. He struck out 142 times in 444 at bats. For you math majors out there, that is one strikeout every 3.13 at-bats. He produced in the other at-bats as evident by his 25 home runs and 70 RBI, but I think on a team that already strikes out a lot, he adds too much of that. He missed the first 25 games of the season and let's assume that he gets 4 at-bats per game during those games. That's 100 more at-bats, therefore his strikeout numbers project to 174 strikeouts. That would have put him 4th in Major League Baseball. I'm not asking for hits in all of those at-bats, but productive outs would be nice. I also understand that his defense was good, one error on the season. But he isn't getting any younger and he had already lost a half a step in my opinion over what he used to be in center field. I know you have to pay someone to play centerfield, but in one man's humble opinion, that 10 million could have been spent somewhere better.