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Q.  Rauuuuuul, and Kendrys, followed by Michael Morse, followed by who?  Adam Dunn?  I'm pretty sure Boog Powell is still alive.

A.  Before we wave Morse's code off as too staticky, let's remember from whence we came. They ARE making offers* on him.  

How they would configure is not very relevant to whether they will import a cleanup hitter, of one type or another, to play 1B/DH.

Look, if it were a deal for Billy Butler rumored, we wouldn't even be talking about the amputations implied, right?  You slough off the guys worse than him, and move on.

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Q.  ::BONK:: My head just hit the desk.  Dr. D is going to argue in favor of another DH?  Perhaps he is collecting a 2013 Mariner-DH Chess Set?

A.  ::winning smile:: Everybody has the other side of this one.  You know what transpires when the blog-o-sphere all rallies to one side of a question that can be argued two ways.  You got it.  Dr. D taps the ball gently over the LF scoreboard, rounds third, jumps wayyyyyyy high into the air and stomps on home plate as hard as he can.... 

The spiral fractures are as entertaining as anything else would be, right?

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Q.  This would be two DH/1B's imported for one year?  What's the point of that?

A.  You are just not used to fluid rosters, babe.  Paradigm Shift Alert ...

Texas and Anaheim buy cleanup hitters for seven years at a time.  Billy Beane can't do that, so he gets 30 homers and 100 RBI out of Josh Willingham for one (1) season.  Then he sheds Willingham and brings in Johnny Gomes, who racks up a 140 OPS+ for one year, and Gomes is pushed off the 20-m high dive into a Yosemite Sam bellyflop into the apple tub below.

Manny Ramirez ... Kilos KaiHuey ... David DeJesus for one (1) year ... Seth Smith came in last year ... 

Going back further there were the 38-year-old Giambi for a year, there had been the aging Frank Thomas, in 2011 there was Godzilla for one (1) year, there was Nomah, there was Matt blinkin' Holliday for one year ... do we have to go on?

Teams are used to marrying the big names.  Billy B dates them.  The M's don't need to run the double-reverse every single drive, but they can have it in their playbook to roll out when the end zone is yawning unprotected.

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Q.  So a Morse scenario means a 1-year plan?

A.  Zduriencik was clear when Prince turned up his nose at us.  "Whether it's now, or next winter, or whenever, we'll get our man."  Let's be super clear:  Mike Morse and Kendrys Morales are kicking the can down the road one year.

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