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Sorry Doc. ;)
And yeah, I agree Taro, LF is NOT the most convenient way to add power.  But we added it at 1B, we've missed on it at DH for 7 years in a row, our 3B hits worse than most SS and is under contract for at least 2 and a half more years...
Left field is it, m'man.  At 3B it's Rendon or nothin.  At DH, I'm not sure who the plus hitter there would be - most players DON'T want to play a strict DH slot.  Ibanez hated it too, thought it besmirched his manhood not to play the field or something.
So we either need a LF/DH share, or we need to pay Fielder, which we're also not likely to do.
Ethier is a top-30 bat (via OPS).  He's apparently either not good enough in the field or with a bat to justify his expected funds in 2013+.  A trade of Bedard is limited to playoff contenders, which limits our pool of contenders.  Cleveland's using the OF I'd be interested in, and I'm not a Lonnie Chisenhall guy at 3B (not that we could get him anyway).
And we can't really wait a couple of years for the next Michael Saunders to pan out or fail - we need a boots-on-the-ground contributor ASAP.
I dunno - we can shuffle the catching situation or work F-Gut back in for CF or call up Ackley at 2B, but the immediate impact isn't likely to come from there.
We'll talk again after the draft - Rendon changes my opinion on the dire need for a plus hitter in LF. :)
~G