He's stolen a base every 10 plate appearances the last two years. His offensive production isn't paltry, especially since we're talking about Crisp replacing Soriano, Byrd, or Jackson, none of whom you can clearly say are going to be more productive offensively. Well, maybe Byrd. Either way the point remains. But if all you do is replace mediocrity with mediocrity you are still left with mediocrity. It's just shuffling the deck.