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If that's what they were going to do?
M's down 4-3 in the 6th to Jered Weaver, and two men get on, and then you bring in John Jaso or Kyle Seager to hit for Miguel Olivo?  Then, absolutely.  You'd be leveraging your bench bats beautifully.
Let me know if you ever SEE that pinch-hit decision.  M's had 51 total pinch-hits last year,  most of them just procedural substitutions in the 9th inning of ballgames already lost.  
Down three runs in the 9th?, okay Carlos, you can go see if you can hit a home run.  That was most of those piddling 51 pinch hits.
I don't know when AL pinch-hitting became an insult to the starter, but it did.
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They're going to keep Jaso, evidently, so we can only hope that it does lead to the kind of meaningful pinch-hitting you propose.  If it does, that will be a wonderful surprise.