Now I've seen the comments on the players somewhat, but what about the 7 categories?
I don't think I've seen anybody talk about a need for a hitter that had success in the postseason as a qualification for a MOO hitter, which is pretty strange considering hitting was our weakness in the postseason, and not pitching.
P/PA I've already talked about and I think most agree we need somebody that will work the pitchers, and OPS with RISP is also huge IMO, but is there anything that doesn't fit or is missing that you think should be a qualification?
We struggled hitting for 6 games. Putting much emphasis on that is misplacing your attention. Of course we still need an offensive improvement, but it's because we were 9th in the AL in runs scored for the regular season, not because of how we hit in the playoffs. If those games were all 8-7 games instead of 2-1 games, we'd still need to focus on the hitting as an area to improve.
As far as what type of hitter, that is also a somewhat irrelevant question, IMO. We need a hitter. Someone who can produce. Sure a certain type of skillset would probably be preferred over some others, but it's not like there are tons of guys out there for us to chose from. I'll settle for a low-OBP, high power guy if that's all we can seem to find. I'll take a low power, high-OBP guy if that's the best value. Just bring in someone who can help bolster our lineup and hopefully hold down the DH spot everyday, making Betemit a pretty impressive left-handed bat off the bench.