The reason we ended up where we did last year was because Donaldson, Tulo, Martin & Travis all were hurt for a significant amount of time, Bautista apparently died and nobody noticed, and Goins, Barney, Zeke and [insert random terrible backup catcher here] were given FAR more at-bats than they ever should have been...
I mean, it's not like Goins, Barney and Zeke were out there trying to hit home runs, and they still stunk up the joint far worse than Martin would have, even if he was "trying to hit a home run every at bat" (which, BTW, he definitely was not trying to do. Generally "try to hit the ball hard" is a big part of baseball...)