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So we're not gonna get all that cash to spend.  He's making 10 mil this year and 18.5 mil next, IIRC.  Still, you'd hope to be able to purchase a decent bat.  I'd also love to pull a Sidney Ponson and trade Bedard at the deadline, telling him we'll bring him back in the winter for a multi-year deal and get some prospects in the bargain.  Assuming we're bringing him back, anyway.
But that would take 16 mil or so off the top of that 25 million to spend.  So we'd get one decent bat and some scraps if we bring back Bedard.
Ackley will help - just watched him whip that quick bat around and launch one over the RF fence in Tacoma, Ichiro-style.  He really does have those quick wrists and great bat control.  Every time I see him he's got diamond-hard strike zone control and plate coverage, and he hits the ball hard with that fast bat of his.  I cannot figure out why his average is cratered, other than ridiculous luck and some bad swings on days I don't watch.
I stand by the Mark-Grace-at-the-plate thing, but Grace ran like he had a piano on his back, as somebody put it, and Ackley has major wheels.  One of these days, light-switch + electricity is gonna make him light up like the sun.
And then we'll only need one more big bat, I guess. :)
~G