What are your prospective thoughts on Tex's year-long funk?

His numbers aren't horrendous, but for a player that most people pegged to be a .280/40/120 player, he's been quite a disappointment of course.

Is there good news that he now becomes cheaper in the long-term?  

Most of me wishes he'd get his act together, but a small sliver of me is intrigued by the fact that Boras & Co. won't rape this franchise again.