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You'd have to decide whether your main offices are going to be in Seattle.  Agree 100% Terry.
If you're on-load $120M for Gonzalez, as a preliminary step to that, you've got to first make a clear, decisive call about Montero's position.  Agree.
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Somebody would have to explain to me why any catcher -- who is automatically good at short hops -- would be unable to play first base, with due practice time expended.  In my day, first base in the NL was where you put all your 40-homer guys with lead feet.  Nowadays it seems that the fangraphs crowd is far too "precious" about UZR at first.  You've got to put your cleanup hitter somewhere, right?
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But in this scenario I thought AGone played 1B, and Montero DH'ed?   Zunino 100-120 games at C if he's really Varitek, Jaso 40-60 games at C, 30 games at DH, and some in the OF ... 4 guys to make 3 positions leaves you 120 games to start with, before anybody grabs OF time.
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But yeah.  I'm the original position-scarcity guy.  People are asking the right Q here in my view.  Do you want your $20M player to be a 1B?  Maybe you don't, and maybe you don't precisely because of Zunino.