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You've paid dearly to gain a couple of inches of defense at 1B with Kotchman / Hannahan, in LF with Chavez et al, you've made all these moves to jack up your DER, regardless of the fact that you don't have a 3-4-5 hitter within a 50-mile radius of Safeco...
Then you're going to give away four yards of defense at SS? The one position where the pitcher needs to know that a batted ball is an out?
It could be my old-school bias here. CF and SS are the two positions where I think you DO have to have a glove. :- ) For the pitcher's nerves.
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I'm not trying to fricasee Zduriencik. :- ) I just wonder why the blog-o-sphere, having so passionately rejected bat-first players, is now is full apologetics mode about Hannahan, SS.