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Nice suggestions for offensive help.  We do, indeed, need to maximize LRods and Kennedy's AB's.  Seeing LRod at SS for a game or two would be interesting.
But our collapsing OF performance is more troublesome to me.  Bradley?  Not much of a live bat, right now.  Not seeing it happening soon either.  He looks nearly done as a punishing bat.
Saunders?  I'm rapidly arriving at the conclusion that he doesn't even have the bat to play CF and is a 4th OF, Langerhans-style, AT BEST!
A quick look at the numbers is depressing.  Against RHP, where he should have the platoon advantage, he is only a bit better than he is against LHP, and he is terrible there.  In '10 his split against righties looked like .215-.311-.376,  Eeeeeesh!  This year it's .196-.255-.333.  Double eeeesh!  His BABIP has been .263 and .261.....Low, indeed, but about what he deserves considering his lack of LD's and his abundance of weak groundouts.
Going back to AAA, we find a guy who never really ripped the ball at that level (minus one 60 game '10 stretch).  In 480 PA's he's hit .274-.346.-.449 with 16 HR's and only 20 doubles.  He's not even an .800 OPS guy one level down, and minus one streak he's not even close.  I know he's only 24, but I'm not seeing anything near a MLB productive bat skill set.
For me Saunders can't sit down fast enough, right now.  Guti?  I don't expect any helpful bat production at all from him this year, really. I thought Saunders might hit enough to be a CF-type.  That isn't going to happen, it appears.  Maybe we can get Carrera back from Cleveland? 
Anyway....Right now we get zilch production from LF, DH, CF AND SS & 2B. (and I'm giving Figgy the benefit of his recent resurgence) We can kind of address the SS/2B issues with guys at hand.  The other three....we better be creative.  Cust and Bradley take care of themselves after the year ends. But this year they still kill us.  Saunders?  4th OF at best.  I thought one day he could hurt RHP with 20 long balls every year.  Honestly, I don't see that anymore.  I think I liked the "loopy" effort better.  Once in a while the ball flew out of the a park.
Can we really compete this year?  R-E-A-L-L-Y?  Not with this lineup.