简单翻译版，有错请指正。 主要在谈水兵打线上的问题，投手部分倒没有着墨。 13-9, first place in the AL West at the end of April. Everyone in Seattle would have taken that if offered at the beginning of the year. The first month saw more good than bad, and the M’s have put themselves in a position to be contenders for the division this year. 水兵开季大惊奇，变成竞争力十足的大黑马。 As contenders, then, the requirements change a bit. If you’re serious about winning, then you don’t get to wait until problems manifest themselves as huge black holes before you fix them. You have to be ahead of the curve, acting before disaster strikes rather than trying to react after it sinks your season. Contenders have proactive mindsets when it comes to shaping their roster. So, if the M’s are going to take a run at the AL West this year, they have to be willing to adjust some preseason plans in order to maximize the team’s chances of winning. 真正有竞争力的球队应该见微知着未雨绸缪，在问题浮现前就把他解决。 For me, the biggest glaring flaw with this team is the quintet of right-handed bats that all have the same basic approach at the plate. Adrian Beltre, Jose Lopez, Yuniesky Betancourt, Franklin Gutierrez, and Kenji Johjima/Rob Johnson occupy five positions as everyday players, and they’re all cut from the same cloth - right-handed, aggressive gap power guys who can hit a fastball if you make a mistake but are more than willing to get themselves out by chasing pitches out of the zone. There are different levels of abilities within these five, but they’re all the same type of hitter. And they all struggle to hit right-handed pitchers, especially righties who have a decent sinker/slider combination. 水兵最显着的问题就是，占据五个每日先发大位的右打者都具备相同攻击型态 ─积极挥击、能给失投速球予以痛击、太常追打坏球─ 包括吹哥、J-Lo、β、Guti、JJ捕手组合在内，面对伸卡/滑球型的投手会被欺负得很惨。 It doesn’t even have to be a good pitcher. Jered Weaver and James Shields shut us down, but so did Rick Porcello, Edwin Jackson, Bartolo Colon, and Trevor Cahill. When the M’s run into a right-handed sinker/slider pitcher, they’re in trouble, because odds are they aren’t going to get much from the Beltre-Lopez-Betancourt-Gutierrez-Joh/Johnson part of the line-up. 例如织织公主、圣盾、Porcello、E-Jackson、科隆、Cahill 都压制过我们的打线。 面对伸卡/滑球型的投手，就别期待这五人组能有什麽贡献了。 That leaves an enormous amount of pressure on the four LH bats, one of whom isn’t much of a hitter. Two of the LH bats are vulnerable to left-handed relievers as well, so our offense can be fairly easily neutralized by any team with a right-handed starter and a halfway competent left-handed reliever. That’s a big problem. 这将带给打线上另外四个左打者很大的压力，其中三个不是不会打击就是被左杀， （这段意思是指 Ichiro 是唯一幸免的那一个吗？ XD） 对手派出右投先发，後半段祭出左手牛就能把我们解决，问题很大。 In addition, the entire bench is right-handed. If any of the four left-handed bats need a day off, they get replaced with a right-handed bat. If you want to inject Balentien into the line-up to add some more power, you’re simply adding yet another hitter who struggles against that same pitcher type. The M ’s just have too many right-handed, free-swinging, fastball-oriented hitters. 纵使不说先发五人组，板凳上也全都是右打， 如果要让左打者轮休，递补进打线的是巴冷天 ─ 一样是个球来就打派右打者。 If they want to win this year, this is going to have to be addressed. One of the five is going to have to surrender their everyday spot in order for the team to get a more patient left-handed bat in the line-up and give the offense some balance. 如果我们想在今年有所作为，右打五人组当中有人必须要让位， 打线上需要一个有耐心的左打。 What are the options? I see three, personally. 以下有三个选项： 1. Try to trade for a middle infielder who bats left-handed or switch-hits. There aren’t a lot of them, and most of the good ones just aren’t available, but you might be able to talk the Braves into a deal that involved Jose Lopez and Kelly Johnson. Maybe. Probably not, but it’d be worth exploring, at least. 虽然左打或左右开弓的内野好货难寻，但可以考虑 J-Lo ←→ Kelly Johnson。 2. Bring up Jeff Clement and give him significant time behind the plate. This is almost certainly not going to happen, as the M’s have made a conscious decision to value defense over offense behind the plate. If Clement can’t get out of Tacoma when Johjima’s on the DL, he’s certainly not going to take over the job when both Joh and Rob Johnson are healthy. We can complain about this one all we want, but Clement doesn’t have a future behind the plate with this organization. 拉上 Clement ，让他变成主战捕手。 不过球队认为捕手的防守价值比打击价值还要重要， 乔治马受伤他都抢不到位子了，未来他大概也不会是水兵的捕手人选。 3. Trade Beltre, move Russ Branyan to third, and replace him with a left-handed hitting first baseman. This one is extremely unlikely and probably wouldn’t work anyway, because Beltre is one of the reasons this team has a chance to make the playoffs. But, if we’re throwing out ideas, it ’s at least in the realm of possibility. As a free agent at the end of the year, the M’s could conceivably get an offer for him that they felt was worth pulling the trigger on, and then attempt to patch the hole they just created by acquiring someone like Nick Johnson and shifting Branyan across the diamond. It’s almost unheard of for teams in contention to make radical shifts like this, which would involve getting away from the defense-first orientation of the roster, but it’s at least possible. A ridiculous longshot, yes, but maybe one worth exploring if the right situations present itself. 利用年底到期的合约卖掉吹哥，补进左打一垒手（such as Nick Johnson）， Branyan 拉去守三垒。 As you can see, of the three options that I can come up with, two of them are basically non-starters. That leaves the M’s shopping for a middle infielder who can bat left-handed. That doesn’t seem particularly likely either, honestly. 不过後两个选项是天方夜谭，交易 J-Lo 说实在话也不大可能。 That’s why this is such a problem. It’s not easily resolved. This team was constructed poorly by the last administration, and it leaves the current front office in a predicament. Perhaps the best test yet of Jack Zduriencik’ s abilities as a GM will be to see if he can solve this rubix cube. 这就是水兵苦手的大问题，面对上任 front office 留下来的烂摊子， 这将是大 Z 总管严苛的考验。 --

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