"I'm a realist," Dunn said Sunday before Dayan Viciedo hit a three-run home run in his first game with the Sox this season. "I'm not like an idiot. We're right in the middle of things. What do you do? What do you say?"
With a .163 batting average, 156 strikeouts and an .037 batting average (3-for-81) against left-handed pitchers, manager Ozzie Guillen had little choice but to talk Sunday with Dunn about a possible reduced role.
"Every time he has an at-bat, my heart stops," Guillen said, "because I want him to produce for him and for us, and feel better (that) he can help sometime. I think he feels horrible because he can't help the club."
Dunn espoused those feelings.
"These are the guys who matter when it comes down to it," Dunn said. "That's the hardest part about the whole thing. If it was me, I could get over it. But it's the guys in here. I don't know how else to put it. It sucks.
"It's (bleeping) awful."
Guillen has conducted similar chats this season with Alex Rios and Gordon Beckham, adding that Giants manager Bruce Bochy has benched high-priced outfielder Aaron Rowand and the Yankees' Joe Girardi did the same with Jorge Posada.
Guillen said Dunn, who is in the first year of a four-year, $56 million contract, has handled his struggles well.
"Yeah, but that gets me nowhere, other than sanity," Dunn said.
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