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is something that is given consideration at the highest levels of the FO. With that said, it does seem like you would be absolutely forced to make Defense First the clubhouse motto, even at the expense of offensive output.
To a point I think you're right, in that the only players they saw available were glove men, but I think they took that notion and ran a 2-3 year plan off of it, including pickups like Endy, Wilson and Kotchman at key positions on the diamond.
I guess where I come down is this: if they hadn't focused in on Kotchman as hard as they seemed to, I could agree with you that they were just getting what they could, when they could. But the Kotchman acquisition just SCREAMS to me that their primary concern is defense. Last year they plugged an easy-to-fill-with-random-slugger LF with Endy, this year they plugged and easier-to-fill-with-random-slugger 1B with this generation's (wannabe) Doug Mientkiewicz.