Who is the catcher then in your scenario? Let's say you can have either D. Lee/Aramis/Barrett/Soriano/Murton to fill 1B, 3B, C, 2B, and LF-as I am suggesting, or you can have D. Lee/Barrett/Blanco?/Soriano/Carlos Lee as you are suggesting. You'd have to find a catcher that had more offense than Murton to make the offense better, and any catcher with even that much offense is going to cost a pretty penny and is probably not available. I think having Lee/Lee/Soriano/Barrett/a Jones & Murton platoon makes finding a catcher than can out produce Murton not necessary (obviously, I'm not saying they don't need to look for a catcher at all; find one who can hit better than Blanco and I'd be fine). I could easily be wrong...that's just my opinion. Plus, who knows what we could have gotten spinning Aramis off to another team. I'm perfectly happy with Aramis on the Cubs next year. I simply think him being here means we're gonna have to be stuck with the black hole up the middle or Murton still learning in LF and not be able to improve both.