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it's so hard to say with tek. he's just a hair under an .800 OPS this season. prior to his awful injury-plagued 06, he had put up three consecutive seasons in the .860 range, including an .855 in his age 33 year. like most people, after watching him last year i figured he was close to being done.

but he wouldn't be the first catcher to bounce back from a 100 point drop in OPS on the wrong side of 30. in 05, jorge posada put up a .782, his worst since 1999, then bounced back in 06 with another .866 season. and he's sitting just shy of 1 so far this year. he's the same age as tek (35).

so it wouldn't really be a shock to see him keep doing pretty much what he's doing, although from just watching him he seems to be overachieving a bit. what really bugs me about tek is his pitch calling with matsuzaka on the mound. i can't say how many times he's called three consecutive fastballs on 0-2 or 1-2 counts instead of going to an out pitch, and dice-k gives up a hit on the second or third one.