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Glad you enjoyed the read.  
I agree with you, the Ms are absolutely looking for RH power in a way that can be controlled.  If we can't trade for or sign RH bats, then we'd better draft em - and the drafts have fallen in such a way the last couple years that we could.  It's not like we're reaching on it, either - Peterson was appropriate (and I called that one), Wilson fell in the draft and was very much worth the risk where we took him, Jackson might have gone #2 so unlike with Buxton a very talented high schooler DID fall to us, and Morgan fell over the course of the season but wound up about where people thought he'd be.
I'm glad to have hitters with a HR potential of more than 15 in the system again.  It's a good feeling.  There's risk involved, obviously, but no more than in drafting arms or going for 4-tool players at defensive positions.  If RH power is a scarce commodity then it's a commodity you'd like to add when available, and we did.
As for Z being in trouble... Until we sell the team or unless they go on another 18-game losing jag, I'm not feeling it.  If either Paxton or Walker can make it up here in the next month to help our starting staff win more games, he should be fine.  They might even let him make a trade for a bat at the deadline, who knows?
The Mariners might get a little crazy.  Fingers crossed, I guess.
~G