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As I said in the shouts, I don't think we'll NEED to use the QO to keep him, but we should definitely keep him. And to be fair, Cameron even states that Morales has value for the 2014-15 Ms. I want Kendrys as a bridge to contention in the next year or two, and then to kids like Peterson and Choi beyond that. No, he can't run bases. No, he's not Edgar at the plate. But for a team that's been wandering in the desert for 40 dog-years (more like 70 dog years, really) looking for a MOTO hitter over multiple years, passing on Morales because he's "only" a DH would be... overly optimistic on our part. Kendrys is the hitter he's always been - and that's the hitter we need, especially since he won't break the bank.
Good MOTO hitters don't fall from trees in these parts. They're mostly buried under them, in fact, providing fertilizer. So if it took the QO to keep him, then I'd use it. If it doesn't and we can negotiate him to something more like 2/20, then I'm good with that. Letting him walk because we didn't want to pay him 9 or 10 over multiple years and are terrified he might take the 14 is a cheap way to run an org that's gonna be swimming in money the season after next. Excuse me: swimming in MORE money.
 
~G