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A.  Baker's column is one more thumb on the scale for getting the kids up here sooner rather than later.  Hey, Ackley's OBP is almost .400 in the PCL.  :- )  So is Tui's.
There's no rush, I know, but Mangini and Wilson and Halman and Tui and Ackley are talented.  It's not like you've got Hunter Browns and Greg Dobbses down there:  you've got talented players.  You think Michael Wilson won't give you his best at-bat -- with or without the sham requirement to move a runner over?
I look up and watch the game when Michael Saunders is at the plate.  Would be glad to see a coupla more like him.  Better than what I'm seeing right now.
HOMERUN, Doc!  No bunting there.  Yu played longball and got it just right!
The idea that we're playing for an option year  years from now with a bunch of talented young players who might be good soon (or might not) makes no sense.  there is a lot that can happn in those years.  If Ackley is the next Joe Morgan, Then you'll know in a couple of years and you can make him an offer he can't refuse.
Boy how I would love to watch this lineup tonight!
Ichiro-RF
Ackley-2B
Smoak-1B
Lopez-3B
Saunders-LF
Guti-CF
M. Wilson-DH
Wilson or Wilson at SS.
Catcher du jour at Catcher.
Pineda...chucking heat.
Sub a Mangini or Tui or Halman in there (although I suspect Halman's a bit further away).  I can live with that.
A man can dream, can't he?
moe