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You're not going to be able to trade for a defensively capable CF...Halman is that already and if he hits...he's a better bet than Guti to produce.
I think Ichiro/Ackley/Smoak is enough offensively if you can find a bunch of 100 OPS+ scrubs.  If Halman, Carp, Seager and Olivo are 100-ish OPS+ guys...and you add the two-man MOTO and the one-man lead-off wrecking crew...that team scores 800 runs and clobbers the west in 2012.  Of course, if we have a chance to add a real thumper to protect Smoak (right now he's getting nothing to hit and is still somehow slugging it out for a 140 OPS+...what happens if he has protection?), then yes, I want to do that and I think that would make us a 100+ win team assuming the scrubs work out.  But I don't think you HAVE to add a thumper to win the west.  It just requires a bunch of other things to go right for the less impressive model to work.