Start with the obvious: You have a young, cheap player under team control excelling at his primary position, one more valuable than left field. Youre really going to ask him to move to a position he has not one inning of experience at as a professional ballplayer, at the same time he continues to adjust to the adjustments major league pitchers will surely make on him?
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