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Exactly G! Maybe Liddi actually brings some pop.
If Saunders displaces Smoak then you have Guti, Saunders, Morse, Bay, Chavez AND Raul who are primarily OF types. 6 out of 13 guys on the roster would be OF/DH. Well, I suppose you could play Morse at 1B fulltime. I don't see it though.
I just think Saunders will replace one of those guys and something else happens with Smoak.
Liddi isn't great. But he's the kind of 3 position player who brings power. I think the Smoak power possibility is all illusion.
He's has 71 homers in more than 2000 AB's in his PRO career......including A and AA. He looks county strong...but there is something missing. So he's got to be a .270-.350 type of guy. He's never come close to .250 in the Majors and only his AAA career BA is .252.
I can't see him getting close anytime soon. He homers 1/28 AB's in AAA and 1/33 in MLB.
And he just K'ed for the 2nd time today, on a curve not even close.
But I'm beating a dead horse. I just think Liddi will get the call. He's not great. But he's probably better than Smoak.
BTW, more and more it looks like Guti is just a 4th OF (but we've said that long ago). He's too dang fragile. Give him the vL starts and then use him defensively against righties, or to PH. I'm all for giving Thames a ton of vR starts, too.
moe