It’s Not a Blip: McCann is Old and Declining

Every off-season, you get emptily hopeful pieces like this one that must’ve taken Newsday reporter Steven Marcus several minutes to write:

McCann wasn’t satisfied with his .232 batting average. “I don’t like looking up there and seeing I’m hitting around .230,’’ he said Friday from Orlando, Florida, where he was participating in a charity golf tournament. “I’ve got to get better. I’d like to hit .300 with 30 [homers].

Don’t scoff yet at Marcus cobbling an “article” out of a 5-minute call Brian McCann returned during a slow moment of charity golf: maybe Marcus got a real scoop on McCann’s new strategy to skyrocket his hit rate after seasons of .