They've said dozens of times they won't push Montero to be the everyday C this season. Playing him a lot at C in AZ is a different thing. They want him to be a C, they just don't want to make him the everyday C at the same time they are leaning on him to be a big bat as a rookie.
Right or wrong, Wedge won't let himself be exposed with having his backup C at DH on a regular basis. Won't happen. Therefore, 3 catchers. Therefore, Olivo.
Figgins will be on the roster at least until Guti returns. He'll share CF with Saunders and share 3b with Seager. They want to see if it was "not leading off" that made him tank, as opposed to "moving to 2b" or "moving back to 3b" or "the towels in the locker room were too scratchy" or whatever.
I will say this: Figgins and Guti will not both be on the roster the entire year. Seager and Catricala are too good, and if Saunders version3.0 can handle prolonged exposure to MLB pitching, then they will get the jobs.
But the team won't just toss their investments in Figgy and Guti on the discard pile without trying to increase their trade value first.
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