"Despite the struggles of Adam Dunn and Alex Rios, the White Sox are far from the worst offense in the American League.

And hitting coach Greg Walker points out that the Sox aren't the only team with slumping sluggers.

"If you look all over baseball ... everywhere I go, everyone is saying the same thing," Walker said. "We have a lot of people scuffling in this league right now. It's going to get better with the weather and as the year goes on.

"Pitching has dominated this league for a couple of years, and we're fighting. We're not giving in to it. And we're playing better. But we have some work to do."

After batting .342 in a three-game sweep at Boston, the Sox ranked seventh in the AL with a .253 batting average. Among the more renowned hitters experiencing the same misery as Dunn (.180) and Rios (.201) are the Mariners' Chone Figgins and the Orioles' Mark Reynolds (each hitting .190), the Marlins' Hanley Ramirez (.210) and the Yankees' Nick Swisher (.215)."