Earlier today I posted an entry about 10 early season stars. This entry is the other end of the spectrum: 10 players off to a really slow start.

Manny Ramirez - Ramirez is a career .313 hitter with 471 home runs. He's hitting a paltry .179 this year with a horrid .250 slugging percentage. The Red Sox are doing well despite this awful hitting by their cleanup hitter which is a very good sign for their team as Ramirez is sure to heat up eventually.

Albert Pujols - Pujols and the Cardinals are struggling. The defending champion Cardinals are at 7-10 and have been having a hard time scoring runs recently. Pujols who has a career batting average of .330 is hitting just .203 this season.

Doug Mientkiewicz - The next to nothing production the Yankees are getting from their first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz is a big part of their struggles this year. He's hitting .128 with a .205 slugging percentage. He's not a great hitter anyway (career .268/.358/.403) but the Yankees certainly expect more than .128 from him.

Gary Sheffield - Ouch. Sheffield has not delivered for the Tigers so far. His season stats thus far include a .119 batting average and .186 slugging percentage.

Melky Cabrera - Cabrera has been another weak link in the Yankees lineup thus far. He's hitting .210 which isn't all that shockingly bad. It's when you see that his slugging percentage is also .210 where it gets really concerning for Yankees fans. As is clear from his slugging percentage: Cabrera has yet to have an extra base hit in 62 at bats. He's also got a paltry 1 walk which has helped him to a hideous .231 OBP.

Gary Matthews Jr. - Matthews Jr. had a breakthrough season last year and then had a nasty spring season in which he was finger pointed for HGH use. Whatever he's taking it's not helping this year. He's hitting .217 with a .233 slugging percentage. He has just one extra base hit all season (a double.)

Jermaine Dye - One of the top hitters in the AL last season, Dye is off to a poor start with a .204 batting average, .310 OBP, and .408 SLG.

Carlos Zambrano - Zambrano has been solid each of the last 4 years but is off to a crap start this year at 1-2 with a 7.77 ERA. He has the worst ERA in the majors for any pitcher with 20 or more innings (there's 61 one of them currently.)

Mariano Rivera - 2 save opportunities, 2 blown saves. Season ERA: 8.44!

Adam LaRoche - LaRoche has the worst batting average of any qualified hitter in the majors. He's hitting exactly .100 but does have a couple of homers so his slugging percentage of .240 is a bit higher than some of the other hitters on this list. LaRoche hit .285 with 32 homers last year.

Dishonorable Mention for Sammy Sosa because he's actually doing better than I thought he would with his 4 homers and 11 RBI. But his overall numbers are still pretty crap: He's hitting just .204 and has a .232 OBP.