You give someone a year for that adjustment. Crawford got hurt and came back and just looked disinterested. Maybe he wasn't and I'm looking at it through the lenses of how people viewed Drew when he was in Boston. Less than a year after he signs the stories started to come out that he regretted his decision and wanted to go to the Angels etc...Is it really? So confidence plays no role? Adjusting to a new team, a new city, a new park, can't possibly throw a guy off his game even though he's still working as hard as ever? And it's not possible for some guys to have a kind of personality that bounces back and recovers confidence in that situation less easily than others? In short, it's not possible for a player to give too much of a shit for his own good, and his teammates'?
Mind you, I have no idea whether the above is any closer to the truth about what happened to Carl Crawford in 2011 than "he didn't give a shit". But I feel pretty sure that makes two of us.
Are you really saying that whenever teams (or players) underperform it must be because they don't give a shit? Because it seems like you are.
It doesn't seem like he was ever comfortable with being here. Mind you maybe the assessment was a little strong and we can agree to disagree on what happened with Crawford but the point is that he completely fell off a cliff and was apart of the two most embarrassing Sox teams of the century and 2001-2002 was pretty bad too.