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Let's assume that the '11 Wells is the real Wells and discount '10.  Hey, he BABIP'ed .371 last year.  That ain't happening again. 
He's at a sustainable .313 this year.
His LD rate and his GB rate were higher in '10 and his FB rate considerable lower.
So, '11 may be the sustainable career path for Wells with occassional dips downward.
He's played 74 MLB innings in LF, 58 in CF, and 377 in RF.  He's a plus defender at all positions, with a career UZR150 of 22+.  In his (very) limited CF innings he's at 26.
So, if we look at '11 as his template, we have a very nice CF bat with a better than decent CF glove. By the way, Carp is showing himself as a plus 10 UZR150 guy in LF.  Gutierrez is a plus 21 career guy in CF.  So it appears that Wells is, at least, adequate in CF, perhaps (much) better.  He may be close to Gutierrez.  Carp can certainly field his position.  A Wells bat/glove in CF and a Carp bat/glove in LF is  much more attractive, in a runs created and saved way, than Guti and either.
And if Beavan is Fister-lite, this becomes more attractive.  If so, it certainly is interesting how quickly Z will have bailed out on Guti, who was his first real "steal."
So, in that situation, does Guti become a 4th OF or is he on the block next (assuming his value hasn't totally crashed and burned).  I remember advocating a Guti for Ellsbury swap with the Sox over the winter, when Ellsbury's stock was low in Boston.  How would that look now?
If you guys eveer watched any original Star trek you will remember that, iin nearlly every episode, some expendable security guard on the Enterprise got vaporized. Are Saunders, Peguerro, Halman, and Guti now completely expendable sucurity guards?
Two of them probably are.  I still think there is a Z/Wedge man crush on Peguerro's pop so he hangs around. What about the other guys.
Would love to see Wells in CF today.  It would be a comforting statement.
Does Wedge have the huevo's to make that statement from day one?  Let's see.
More likely that Carp DH's the first game, but I think we can all see that a Guti return to '09, bat-wise, appears less likely all the time.
Casper in CF batting 5th or 6th today?  Very cool.