At the expense of having a player who's a negative factor on the offense? You're right I don't. It's not mutually exclusive; you can find a good defense SS who isn't incompetent when he hits. I don't buy that Cesar Izturis can suck at the plate but be an asset simply because he plays good defense at SS. This team is not good enough to have a complete cipher in the batting order. 10 years ago, Cesar might have been a HOF cliber SS ala Ozzie Smith (career .262 hitter) Career 0.075 IsoD... compared to 0.035 for Izturis. And Ozzie was so much better with the glove it's not even funny. Thanks, I was kidding. Guess that's my fault, I should have been more clear!