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Is Mark Teixeira Having a Slow Start or Is His Career in Decline?

have seen Mark Teixeira play since his rookie season with the Texas Rangers in 2003.

I lived in the Dallas-Fort Worth area back then and Tex, as he was nicknamed, had a promising first season, batting .259 with 26 home runs and 84 RBI.

He started slowly, batting just .237 with five homers and 25 RBI through May. That's when he got the reputation for slow starts.

A little research, however, reveals that the perception of Teixeira as a notoriously slow starter is wrong.

That won't comfort Yankees fans who have been waiting for him to break out this season.

The cold hard facts show that Teixeira's batting average has gone down every season since he signed as a free agent with the Yankees in 2009.

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