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You can say it was forced, but c'mon...he could theoretically have pulled a Lou Piniella (hitting instead of pitching) and given each of those guys about ten games and then gone "nope...too young...SEE...I TOLD YOU they were too young...send me a veteran!" And forced Z to send em down and grab DFA vets or hang onto Ryan Langerhans or call up one of the journeyman types we had in AAA for the OF especially...e.g. Ford (yep...a vet in AAA just begging for PT that was never deployed).