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Doc, some time before Carp turns 26 on the 30th of June, we may well start a lineup that looks something like this. (ages listed as they would be on Opening Day)
I know...we've done all this before and you all know....but
Ichiro (38) RF
Seager (24) SS
Ackley (24) 2B
Carp (25) LF
Smoak (25) 1B
Wells (27) CF
Liddi/Franklin (both about 14) 3B
Add a catcher (aged) and a DH (Trayvon/Saunders/Pegeuro/etc/Fielder)
And you have a VERY young lineup.
On that same day our Rotation may well be Felix (26), Fister (28), Pineda (23), Vargas (29), Paxton/Hultzen (both about 14, again).
Young?  Yep!  Unprecedented?  Nope!  Check out my '69 Miracle Mets....
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYM/1969.shtml
The more I think about it...the more I think that is the template we are now copying: A very youthful/talented staff ( .... We may well have TWO Seavers) and youthful bats about to whack.  I like this a lot.
If we can find the one judicious bat signing (Fielder 5X$25 and then mutual option. We pay 5-5-5 if we let him go (total = $140M.  Does that get it done?) and then let the young guys play we're good, pretty quickly.
Youth is good.  Let it play.
moe {still young, even though I cut my teeth on the '68 Tigers and '69 Mets)