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I've been touting Crawford as a solution all offseason... how sweet would it be to put a guy like that in LF, when you've already got Gold-Glove CF defense (the real kind, not the voters' kind) in CF AND RF?
Interesting thing is, for some reason when I've been imagining the 2010 Mariners with Crawford in place... I keep slotting him in at #3 as the most talented non-Ichiro hitter we've got, and putting Mr. Gutierrez in that 2-hole. Am I insane?
This is how I keep envisioning it:
RF *Ichiro!, CF Gutierrez, LF *Crawford, DH *Hideki Matsui (that's another story... insert Vlad/whomever if you prefer), 1B *Branyan, 2B Lopez, 3B Tuiasosopo, C Moore, SS Wilson
(EDIT - apparently single line returns aren't displayed... boo!)