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It completely confuses me when people (many people, some even holding prominent positions in the 'sphere) complain that we're too LH heavy.  In my mind, we have three legit plus right-handed hitters in Bradley, Lopez and Guitierrez. 
Lefties?  Ichiro doesn't count because he's a non-factor at power, and because there's usually no appreciable platoon splite.  Bradley is a step worse vs. righties, Griffey isn't exactly projected to torch righties and Figgins falls into the same category as Ichiro, kind of irrelevant to the whole lefty vs. righty discussion due to negligable power (and switch-hitter-ness).
We have pretty much no plus lefty hitter anywhere on the team.  I'm not saying it's essential to have multiple lefty sluggers, but once again we are creating a lineup which contradicts our park (in this regard), albeit not as extremely as in recent years.
To me, handedness only matters inasmuch as there are A) drastic platoon splits which create inequality and B) major park factors such as Safeco, Yankee or Fenway.  We're probably not as severe as either of those two in positive effects, but you'd better believe Safeco is just as rough on the negatives.