People have to understand A-Gone isn't here for his bat, he's hititng in the 9 hole for a reason. His Glove is better than the glove of Pokey Reese (which I personally believe with the ammount of runs he has the potential to save could quite possibly make up some of the runs he can't drive in), A-Gone was a fine addition because we have enough offense.
Loretta is an upgrade over just about everyone we had playing second last year.
Anyone who wants to complain about the Youk / Snow platoon can think of it this way. We could still have the Kentucky Fried Dumbass out there.
As for Lowell he had an off season last year at the plate but he could just as easily bounce back, and no one can question his defense.
Bottom line here is that our infield this year > our infield last year, no question about it.