He's scared to death of frenchy's bumbling ass.

When do we see the Hosmer shift with 4 guys standing on the edge of the grass behind short?

I think those have been a combination of bad breaks and positioning at the pitch.

His range on IF ground balls is excellent. I'll take that trade off, I think.

I've been thinking the same thing with Hosmer. I actually thought maybe he should move to the 2 spot. His OBP hasn't been terrible, he's just not hitting for power. And he can steal a base here and there. Put him in front of Butler and Gordon and see what happens.
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For sure. I was wondering if these slight miscues were indications that he's not a particularly instinctive player.

This doesn't seem like a bad plan. My goodness if Hosmer doesn't hit into terrible luck on a consistent basis, though.

I don't know why we can''t call up Lough and give him a shot in RF. Dude handles CF in AAA just fine is 410/517/927 and he can't get a look? If there was ever a guy kicking down the ****ing door it would be him........especially with this organization. He's blocked by Dyson (hitting .250) and Frenchy? That's ****ing insane! We need guys that can hit at their position. The only guys on the big league club that do are Johnson (in his limited chances), Gordon, Cain, Perez, and Escobar. Butler-no.....Moose-no (but lookin better), Hosmer-no, Getz-no, and Frenchy-hell no.

Why the **** Frenchy and Getz are sacred cows I do not understand. This organization can't say they are serious about winning with these two in the starting lineup. Gio has done nothing with his chances when he's gotten them, but Getz is by no means a better option.

Release Frenchy and Getz and get Gio and Lough up. There is no justifying keeping anybody that isn't getting it done with the bat in the lineup for their defense because this "really good defense" is next to last in the AL. Give me some guys that can hit the ball.

THIS. When I've been able to see the games, Hos doesn't get many hits, but he hits the ball HARD. That's got to pay off at some point.

Well I know baseball so...duh.

I'd swap Moose and Hos and keep Elliot and Dyson in there for a bit. An on fire Moose will give Billy some protection.

Hosmer is waiting to explode offensively. It has to happen.

Pitchers HATE facing Eric. They know that the next ball has a very strong possiblity of being rocketed back at their feet.

Time to break this losing streak

How does Butler not hit his position?

I heard Mike Boddicker on 810 the other morning and he was talking about Hos, said with his stance right now he can ONLY hit it to left, and without power. He said if he keeps that up he won't hit more than 2 homers this year.

He also said it's something that's easily fixed, like in three days.

Dutton thinks they're just trying to get Hos to make consistent contact before they let him open his hips and pull the ball. I hope that's the plan. I hope it's not simply to keep his avg afloat with singles to left to buoy his confidence. At some point, for the team's sake, he has to hit with power.

I mean, look at his spray charts this year. He hit 19 homers his rookie year, and even in a bad year last year he hit 14. This year ... zip so far, hardly any long flyball outs either.

For the team to succeed, he's got to hit 20-25, IMO. If not that, at worst he'd have to hit .300 with 40-50 doubles. But a .275 singles hitter? Won't cut it.

HEY LOOK AT ME! YEAH, ME. GIVE ME ATTENTION. ERIC HOSMER SUCKS LOL.