Where'd you(r talent) go, we miss you (it) so...

We're now 60 games - give or take - into the major league baseball season, and there's no better time than the present to look back at all those tantalyzers who started out the season so promising, yet now suck so, so hard. We originally wanted to include Barry Bonds - really, we did - but after careful consideration we realized that he still has the ability to hit a home run every seven or eight at bats, just not the lower body. Baseball's greatest villian has creaky hips, no knees, and recently somehow managed to develop shin splints despite never running. We've had shin splints before, so if that's an offshoot of HGH, we prefer the wheat germ.

No, this list is strictly for those brief flashes of otherworld talent that now appear to be have been either mirages or last gaps. And now, your 2007 "Chris Shelton" MLB All-Tease Team:

1B Jack Cust
- Cust, while filling in at DH for the A's, hit six home runs with 14 RBIs in his first 26 at-bats and became the hottest commidity in fantasy baseball circles everywhere. In the past month, Cust has become a regular strikeout victim and left the park only twice.

2B Ian Kinsler
- Kinsler homered in half of the Rangers' first 14 games to start the season and was mentioned as a possible all-star candidate. He's now batting .230 and the Rangers are in a freefall.

3B Chipper Jones
- A suspicious pick, as his average still hovers over .300 and his slugger percentage is a healthy .625, but that was before he regressed into the Brittle Jones we've come to know over the past three seasons. He's played just 10 games in the past month and with team doctors ordering his wrists immobilized, who knows when he'll return to the lineup for good.

SS Khalil Greene
- His .265, 4-homer, 17-RBI April, while not eye-popping, looks monstrous compared to his May, when he hit a robust .163.

C Miguel Olivio
- The Marlins catcher started out the season with two multi-hit games in the team's season-opening series. Since then, he's had just one such game and his batting average has dropped below .220.

OF Josh Hamilton
- He was the success story - ravaged golden boy reborn - that MLB dearly wanted to draw the focus off Bonds' pursuit of Aaron. It looked good in April, when he hit six homers in limited playing time. Then he went on the DL and MLB forgot he existed. Sigh.

OF Sammy Sosa
- To be fair, his still among the league leaders with 43 RBIs, but he homered less than half as many times in May (3) as he did in April (7). And, really, if he's not there to hit home runs, what's the point?

OF Pat Burrell
- Pat "The Bat" has always been streaky, but this year he's more of an enigma than usual. He homered just once in April, yet batted over .290. Then, he went yard five times in May, but his batting average fell below .200. You figure him out.

SP Felix Hernandez
- The King gaveth, in the form of a one-hit shutout during Dice-K's Fenway debut, and he's since taketh away, giving up 21 earned runs in his last 26 innings.

RP B.J. Ryan
- Ryan was expected to carry Toronto's bullpen going into this season, but in five appearances before season-ending surgery, the only thing Ryan carried was an ERA of 12+.

Feel free to argue amongst yourselves in the comments. Both of you.