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I agree completely. If you have a historically bad offense, and you're determined to upgrade it, then how do you fail to adequately address DH? As you say, I can understand if you guess wrong once in a while on a stopgap player. But time after time after time after time? Z may be a genius (or may not), but he's caught Mariners-front-office-itis on this one.
I also agree that you're temporary solution (Bradley to DH, Saunders/Langerhans to full-time LF/CF or CF/LF, Cust to Dust), is the best that can be immediately achieved with the current roster. Then you add a RH OF bat. The one caveat is that Bradley might mope and revert to a non-factor with the bat. OK. If he does that, then sit him down until he either adjusts or you swallow the shrinking balance of what's due him and do a DFA or trade dump. He won't be here next year.