To be fair to Pierre his OBP (.345) is the highest it's been in 4 years.

Juan Pierre, year by year OPS+
58
89
68
94
107
84
82
75
74

Nice curve there, some fluctuations at the start... but otherwise a nice curve...

Batting leadoff in 2008, Juan Pierre: .254/.307/.282
Holy crapola!
The 2008 Dodger offense is terrible because they've given 649 at bats to Pierre, Kent, Jones & Hu. Hu has presumably lost his shot at PT, Kent could sill hit last year, but he's also 40,

Jones... Jones has not hit since 2006... in the second half of 2006, his walk rate spiked, his HR rate spiked and his batting average tanked.

Methinks that maybe, just maybe, Jones was forced to make adjustments to declining bat speed as early as 2006, such adjustments worked in the short term- as he was enormously productive the 2nd half of 2006- despite an awful batting average- but then he either continued to decline and could no longer make effective adjustments and/or pitchers adjusted and he's probably through as an everyday player, perhaps a good manager can pick matchups that are favorable for him, but...

the 2008 Dodgers are very similar to the 2008 Mets, two very wealthy teams that have good pieces, but the whole is being dragged down by crap.

If Kent doesn't snap out of it, can Dewitt play 2nd? Can Delwynn? Is LaRoche ever gonna be healthy?

the whole is being dragged down by crap.

Well, kinda. But, other than Martin and Furcal's hot start, it's not like there are any hitters having a good season. Loney and Kemp have OPS+s of 99 and 100; Ethier is at 102. The Dodgers have played the (healthy) kids and they've been ... meh. So even if you took all those crappy ABs and replaced them with league-average for their position, you'd still have a below-average offense here (in terms of performance this season, not necessarily talent).

So even if you took all those crappy ABs and replaced them with league-average for their position, you'd still have a below-average offense here (in terms of performance this season, not necessarily talent).

the team has an era+ of 111 and an ops+ of 89
if you replace the 649 at bats I mentioned with league average at bats, you woudl have a m,uch better team

well, obviously. They'd probably pick up a couple wins and be ... 500!

I would bet that almost every team has about 600 PA or 200 IP or some similar combination of utter crap production by this point in the season. For the most part, the Dodgers are meh because, other than Martin, their "stars" aren't producing like stars -- Andruw, Kent, Loney, Kemp, Penny, Lowe. Granted, Andruw and Kent are "underperforming" so badly they've justly made your "crap" list so the two perspectives aren't entirely different.