You can let Rizzo, Vitters and Jackson come up and struggle while still at least trying to put decent players at other positions. Why the hell is Bryan Lahair your starting LF? He's been awful for quite some time now. Maybe it's time to stop pretending he has a chance of being something. April .390/.471./.780 May .253/.343/.448 June .222/.276/.426 I don't see anything wrong with his May numbers myself. Yeah, he's had a very bad June. But his season should be looked at as a whole, not month by month. If he's worse in July and August than he's been in June? Sure, we need a LF. But, if he even puts up May numbers for the rest of the year, then we don't. Granted, he could be dealt at some point and we grab a LF in FA anyway. But, for now, with Soriano almost definitely on his way out, LaHair is our LF. Months themselves are arbitrary endpoints, so what happens if we do something very simple like have April extend thru May 3rd? April: .388/.468/.821 May: .241/.333/.380 June .222/.276/.426 LaHair is Hoffpauir incarnate, we need him on another roster as soon as possible, and if we can't unload him, he's a bench bat. So, in a season where we have extremely few assets to begin with, you wouldn't rather see if we can build some value in the guy, than casting him off for next to nothing right now? Goldstein, Badler, Law, all those guys think he can hit. If he's in a slump and comes out of it, he's worth a lot more. If he doesn't, what have we lost right now? This season is to see if he can build some value and we don't have better options right now anyway. I find it very strange that you're more anxious to trade away Garza than you are LaHair.