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As I said, I think he replaces a black hole...I think he hits better than Ryan (perhaps a 70-75 OPS+) but it's still a bad spot in the order. Most of the bad hitting from L-Rod has been bad luck on BABIP...he controls the strikezone pretty well and from what I've seen watching the games, he's hitting the ball fairly hard mcuh more often than Ryan does. Gutierrez is going to take 90% of Saunders' ABs, IMHO. Saunders is going to start twice a week...so yes...Gutierrez DOES replace Saunders. Bradley/Langerhans are being replaced by Peguero/Wilson and eventually Carp.