I mean, it's outside the box thinking in the sense that, if Tommy Layne went down, David Price would be a hell of a LOOGY.
Blake Swihart's appeal isn't that he's a plus hitter, because he isn't. It's that he's a plus hitter for a catcher. If he isn't playing catcher, you are wasting value. Now, due to poor roster construction by Dave Dombrowski, wasting value by having him play LF may be, for the moment, a necessary evil (admittedly more necessary and less evil than using Price as a LOOGY!). But the team's priority should be getting Swihart back inside the (catcher's) box, where he has real value, to us or, more likely, to someone else.