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... they're running out of places to spend it... 1B now occupied, and no LF bats to spend it on...
Undoubtedly Zduriencik would explain it in terms of Kotchman's age-27 season producing more than Carp's rookie year.
That is the kind of decision, though, that in any other regime, would take a merciless beating ... the honeymoon is getting stretched rather far on many of these moves...
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The upside occurs if Kotchman is seen as a Band-Aid for the next 1B in: Adrian Gonzalez, in May. Or similar. In THAT scenario the pieces sort of fall in.