Take your pick. You can't use another lefty bat after Ichiro and Ackley (or at least, most wouldn't) and those are your two power-cleanup hitter types. I think Smoak will be #4 at the beginning, but after he ran into problems in the 4-hole last year I'm not sure how Wedge feels about it.
We know he doesn't like putting rookies as cleanup hitters - he said as much last year. I could see us going Smoak - Carp - Montero as our #4-5-6 hitters to keep Montero from that situation.
But it took what, 6 weeks for Smoak to take the #4 slot simply because everyone else sucked, right? He was the 3 hitter after a month and started as the 5, so it's not like Wedge is scared of young MOTO hitters in general. Ackley took 17 games to become the 3-hitter.
Montero might not be the 4 hitter off the bat...but we'll see how long it takes. It's up to Smoak, IMO. He starts slow, either in ST or April, and Montero fast? They can shuffle Smoak back to 5 pretty easily.
~G
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