the Angels, I think there'd probably be a stronger impulse than we acknowledge to run Davis out there if the team was to go into Texas and was scheduled to face Derek Holland and Matt Harrison. I just think we ignore those factors too much sometimes and that, in my opinion, it'd be hard to simply divide the reserve outfield at-bats 400 to 150 between Snider and Davis. As to your more general point, I think the team could find enough at-bats for Snider in the majors to give him 400 for the season if they wanted to and were willing to sit EE and Lind more often, but they don't (or they view 600 at-bats at Triple-A as preferable). 92-93, if you were the general manager, you wouldn't have to trade Davis, because you would have already demoted Thames and given the full-time job to Snider, wouldn't you? You feel that Snider is better than Thames, so you wouldn't need to juggle the 4th OF and DH jobs, you would simply make Snider the full-time LF, no? I didn't realize that this exercise was about imagining oneself as the GM and projecting the lineup that you would choose if you had the power to decide. I thought we were dealing with the world as it currently exists. That's why I mentioned the Davis factor. As for Encarnacion and Lind: it's always possible to argue that Snider will be better than either of those dudes, if we're guessing about the