While no one was expecting Pettit to set the world on fire, depth is never a bad thing to have in the majors and Pettit had a good chance of providing us with that. This will probably leave us with the trio of Reggie Willits, Robb Quinlan, and Terry Evans as OF backups, although I tend to think of Quinlan as more of a corner infield back up that Scioscia has some kind of weird man-crush on. He’s not exactly good at any of the positions, and personally I think Reggie Willits deserves a chance to show us whether his .391 OBP in 2007 was a fluke or not. I’m sure to some extent it was, but even if he can give us a .350-.360 OBP, it’s going to be better than we’ll get from Quinlan. And yes, I realize Willits has no power (and while “no power” is usually a way to describe guys that only hit a few HRs a year, in this case he literally has no power, and practically makes Chone Figgins look like a slugger with his 5 HRs in 2009), but he does provide us with some speed, which Quinlan does not, and Scioscia is clearly a guy that likes his speed.

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