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How would this look as your starting 9 in 2012:
(last column is my off the top of my head projected HR)
Ichiro (rf) -- LH -- 5
Ackley (2b) -- LH -- 15
FIELDER dh/1b) -- LH -- 40
Carp (lf) -- LH -- 25
Smoak (1b/dh) -- SW -- 25
Seager (ss) -- LH -- 10
Trayvon / Wells (cf) -- RH -- 20
Liddi (3b) -- RH -- 20
Olivo (c) -- RH -- 15
First of all thats a LOT of left handed sweetness right there.  How would you like to be a RH starter staring down that barrell?  I tried to guess a MID level projection on HR, maybe a little high here or a little low there but reasonalble.  That is a total of 175 homers, when was the last time the M's even smelled 150???  This is why we need Fielder SOOO bad, he turns an interesting young lineup, relying on things to break right and eveyone to have an up year together into a murderers row that is scary and allows for some nice suprises (from a guy like Liddi or Seager or Wells or Trayvon), but doesn't require it.  Specs K%'s below are very instructive and forwboding, but would feel so much better of betting on those K%s was a luxury, a hope for the multiplier after already hitting the jackpot, not a draw at the deck for an average offense!
As an aside, from what I have seen so far I think that Liddi could club 30 HR a year no problem, the real question is if he can keep his BA high enough (and K's low enough) to get the oppurtunity, but even next year he could be a Cust like two true outcomes hitter, but with ks and HR not ks and BB :)  Plus I have been very impressed with his D.  The dude is a nfl DE and yet he moves better than our future SS (Seager) at 3rd!  And as Blowers pointed out the last few night he has very quickand very soft hands (probably a good thing for his bat too!)
Just for grins (or probably more like tears) here are the HR totals for the Mariner Starters for the last decade or so (bench number in parenthesis)
2011   68 (41)  
2010   69 (32) 
2009 120 (40)
2008 106 (18) 
2007 137 (16) 
2006 154 (18) 
2005 115 (15) 
2004  95 (41) 
2003 124 (15) 
2002 122 (30) 
2001 151 (18)
Lots of young guys in and out the last few years so the bench numbers are a little inflated and starters low.  But holy Cow looking at this list 175 homers from the starters would be like some sort of miricle or something!  In fact so much so that now I am feeling less comfortable with my projections...  So you guys tell me where I have totally blown the HR projections, because 175 can't be sane can it???