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I guess we're on opposite sides of this. I agree that they weren't looking at other skills, but to me that's exactly the problem with the decision process around making that trade. That same decision process, which is basically "more dingers", is a big part of why this team sucks right now. This is why we traded John Jaso for Michael Morse, who can barely play the outfield and is constantly hurt, and which is ultimately why we called up Mike Zunino way too soon. This is why we have a 41-year old DH playing the outfield and why we gave up an athletic fourth or fifth outfielder type for a 34-year old reclamation project. It's dingers, dingers, dingers and the result is a team that's really pretty awful.