re: Blake Dean 2 of 15 hitting this week through 4 games

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I said at the beginning of the week if he can't break out of his slump he should be benched for a little bit and I think it's fair enough to say if he doesn't have a nice 2+ hit game today that should be done.

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I wouldn't bench Dean. I may move him around in the lineup to try and jumpstart him. But, even then I probably wouldn't even do that.

Dean has gone through slumps here before. He'll battle out of it. We don't have anyone on the bench who can come in and give us definite production. You'd basically have to replace him in the lineup with a freshman.