...and we can get offense at DH and LF for sure without negatively impacting the great D much. And if Lopez moves over to third and Tui sticks at second, you've got two guys who, combined, can't be that much worse than the Beltre/Lopez/Hannahan cluster has been defensively this year...maybe we lose 10 runs by UZR if we bat-up in LF and go with some combo of Tui and Lopez at 2B and 3B next year. Doc seems to be laboring under the impression that the paradigm choice is EITHER gloves OR bats and there aren't teams who make gloves the priority first and still win (*cough*Cardinals*cough*). Never mind that we were in YEAR ONE of a rebuilding plan from a 101 loss disasterpiece theater of a roster with little prospect upside to tap...never mind that we were cash strapped...never mind that some of the players we acqiured for defense HELPED offensively. No no...in Dr. D's world, the Mariners should have lost 88-90 games this year BECAUSE they prioritized the gloves...rather than viewing it as "the Mariners should have lost 90+ games because they SUCKED before the season...but they're above .500 because Zduriencik found a cheap way to get them afloat."