Anderson was chopping down too many trees.
"He was kind of doing some things that weren't the best for him," Francona said. "Remember the story of him chopping wood or chopping trees down? That's what he looked like -- like a lumberjack. But he didn't have that much flexibility and it was hard for him to drive the ball down in the zone."
Anderson, sometimes referred to as "Big Country," is seen in his Twitter avatar after a hunting expedition.