Juan Pierre is baseball's best fourth outfielder.

The problem is that Juan Pierre plays like-and is being paid like-a starting outfielder.

Pierre, 32, has two more years and $18.5 million remaining on the five-year, $44 million pact he signed with Los Angeles prior to the 2007 season.

When he signed with the Dodgers, Pierre was slated to be the club's starting center fielder for the foreseeable future, yet in his relatively short time with the club he has been bumped from center fielder to left fielder to fourth outfielder.

He was initially ousted from center field when the club signed Andruw Jones to a two-year deal prior to the 2008 season. Jones quickly proved unfit for-well-everything but pie eating contests and cashing paychecks in between DL-stints.

Pierre, however, didn't regain the starting gig in center field thanks to the emergence of Matt Kemp. Instead Pierre moved to left field where his noodle-like arm proved to be less of a liability.

It didn't take long before Pierre was getting bumped again, this time for defensive albatross Manny Ramirez, after the enigmatic slugger was acquired in a trade deadline deal with the Pirates and Red Sox.

Since the Ramirez trade-and subsequent re-signing-Pierre has spent the majority of his time riding the pine as a fourth outfielder and late game option off the bench.

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