Not disagreeing with you polarbear, but to play devil's advocate, I'd say that Berkman has fallen off a cliff over all in '09. Plus, in order to truly determine whether he should give up switch hitting, you'd have to see how he'd hit as a LH batter vs. LH pitchers, and I wouldn't want to see that until spring training 2010. Also, I'm sure there's some stubborness on Lance's part where that's concerned also.

This gets me wondering. . . . Has anyone ever heard someone ask Lance about hitting LH exclusively? And, if so, what was his answer? And further, historically, what have been the results of players that give up on switch hitting after being semi-successful doing it for so long? Anyone know of any well known cases?