1. Not so much Wedge specifically, but any manager. I say it because when I looked at it I couldn't find any examples of a team using their only backup C as primary DH for any length of time. And the risk is having to hit your pitcher at a key spot. Maybe it's a bad percentage play, but it's like going on 4th down in your own territory -- doesn't matter what the odds say, not gonna do it with your job on the line and everyone watching.
2. It's Saunders and Catricala asserting themselves as guys deserving a shot that makes me think Figgins and Guti won't both last the season. You could keep Seager and Wells rotating through with Figgins and Guti, but you can't keep Saunders and Catricala in the mix, too. The premise is that one (or both) of those guys busts their way in.
If neither of them looked MLB-worthy (which was certainly a plausible situation at the start of the spring), then I wouldn't say that.
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