I am still on the fence about whether or not we should sign Joe crede, even if it comes at some kind of a discount.

I understand alot of the upside that could come with it, and have read the 'Pro Joe' article, and articles like it, but I would just like to really give our in house options some kind of an oppurtunity before we deem them unworthy. I think bowker, or more so Ishikawa could put up similar numbers while costing us only money that we are already spending. I am pretty satisfied with getting to watch Sandoval at third, and Ishikawa at first this season. I wanna see what they can do, and I am afraid of just bringing in a more injury prone Pedro Feliz, (as I have heard him be referred as) to take away time from them.

One senerio that wouldnt bother me if we signed crede would be platooning him with Ishi, and having sandoval moving across the diamond when the other is playing.

Now I say this with ZERO idea of how crede fairs against righties, or what travis' numbers were against lefties in AAA and his 33 games with us last year, so feel free to tell me if they did ok Righty on Righty and Lefty on Lefty.

But the benefits I see with doing this are the following:

If Travis does not hit lefties it would give us a better option then Phelps for him to split time with.

It would allow Sandoval to get time at both first and third throughout the season.

They both are good defenders so defense wouldnt be subtracted depending on the opposing starting pitcher.