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I am declaring Cust a complete and total write-off at this point.  Not because of the small sample of statistics he has to date, but because of the template and the guys in the line-up around him.
As a complimentary player, he might still have some utility, but as the clean-up hitter for a lousy team, he's dead meat walking.  He'll still draw a few walks, but aside from when he (rarely) makes contact, producing the occasional solo homer, Cust is going to get abused by the shift, murdered by left handed pitchers in every crucial situation late in close games, pitched around with a base open, and in the way when he's actually on base and someone behind him by utter miracle gets a hit in the gap somewhere.
Cust is useless to Seattle.  A complete and total write-off.