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As I wrote last week , Milton Bradley's appointment as the Seattle Mariners' cleanup hitter highlighted a bitter truth about the Mariners' lineup; it is (nearly) completely devoid of power.  If Seattle's first game against Oakland proved anything, it's that skipper Don Wakamatsu made the right decisions at the top of his lineup. The top two hitters, Ichiro Suzuki and Chone Figgins, both reached base four out of 10 plate appearances and combined for three runs scored and three stolen bases. Three-hitter Casey Kotchman took advantage of his speedy predecessors, going 2-4 (3-4 if you count the botched call that robbed him of a leadoff single in the eighth) and driving in four of Seattle's five runs. If Ichiro and Figgins can maintain their career on-base-percentages, Kotchman should have ...

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Article written by Scotty Kimberly