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I'm locked in on Rios.  He's my guy.  He slaps lefties upside the head and doesn't lose that much against RHP.  He's a rent-a-bat that we can get without giving up DJ.
That said, I could see giving up DJ if we brought in a young RH bat like Grichuk or Souza.  Grichuk is ths same age as DJ anyway and plays CF some (he's better in the COF).  If you got one of those, then losing DJ isn't as critical.  
Zobrist is a quality pro.  But if we're looking at giving up DJ to get 1.4 years of Zobrist or Smoak to get .4 years of Rios....then it's an easy pick for me.
Matt wrote:  "Prime Zobrist is basically Peterson's upside," which is true.  But Prime Zobrist went two years ago.  Zobrist projects to only 12 more doubles and 4-5 homers for the rest of this year. He had 72 X-BAse hits in '11, 66 in '12, 51 in '13 and is on track for 46-47 in '14.    15?  He would indeed give us 10 starts at 2B/SS/and 3B here on out....plus his LF starts.  Valuable stuff that.  But unless we get a replacement young-nearly ready-RH bat, then DJ is a bit too steep for me.