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I can live with a Guti as Blair scenario.....as long as we have a Mariner version of Don Buford in LF, getting on base 40% of the time and OPS+'ing 130 or so!
Bradley, by all accounts, is a pretty happy camper right now.  But that makes his offensive decline even more concerning.  Perhaps he did just "cool off," but he's gone glacial cold.  If he could scratch his way back up to .257/.378, like he did in Chicago in '09, I would be ecstatic.  But you're looking at a guy who's a .207/.300 guy the last two seasons.  We're we on the horse track and looking at the form chart, I'm not sure we'ld be plopping down much cash on win or place for Bradley.  Show might be all we can hope for.
There's and interesting conjunction coming up.  How long to we keep PA'ing Bradley and Cust if they don't produce and we keep sniffing along the playoff trail? Do you gamble on a new bat that might propel you forward?  And if we don't keep sniffing along that trail, when do we jettison them?
All the same, Saunders had some ability to launch last year.  This new Saunders doesn't hit it any more often and certainy doesn't have as much "launchability."
Get Guti back (but don't expect any bat), find a Seattle version of Buford for LF (which will require a bit of a dice throw), and stick the hottest of Cust/Milton at DH.  But all that requires abandoning two players.....Langerhans (unless he becomes a fulltime LF) and the worst of Cust/Bradley.
I bet there is some debate going on right now on who goes when Guti comes back.  A AAA trip for Saunders would essentially be waving the white flag.  Keeping him means your 4th OF is pretty offensively ugly.  If it's me?  You know my answer. Why not....