“Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever.” That was one of the many memorable lines uttered by Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves) in The Replacements, an underrated movie that also starred Jon Favreau and Gene Hackman, among others.
While that was a flick about replacement football players, you’d think the MLB players that occupy this week’s All-Dud team were, in fact, replacements for the game’s regular stars who had decided to go on strike.
After you see some of the numbers this week’s squad put up, you’ll question just how quickly pain truly heals—and whether this week’s crop of disappointing duds will spend the rest of the season nursing the mental scars from a forgettable week of action.
We’ve picked 10 players—one per position, including a designated hitter and starting pitcher—who put together disastrous performances over the past seven days—one of whom is walking around with a self-inflicted shiner.
Who made the cut alongside the San Francisco Giants’ Hunter Pence? Let’s take a look.