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I think the problem with the trade of Pineda for Montero was more in the tunnel vision of wanting a big bat and not evaluating properly what other skills the player brought to the table. In Montero's case, he offers little else other than his bat. Even moving him to 1B is a bit dicey because now you have a subpar defensive player and a right handed batter at a position that ideally would be filled by a power-hitting lefty. So all of that puts even more pressure on the bat to produce at an elite level.
And then of course we saw this same tunnel vision in this last offseason bringing in all of these other players to add to the 1B/DH logjam.

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