Hopefully Gordon produces in the 3 spot. He hasn't in the past though.

is it wrong that I'm starting to get a Mark Teahen vibe from Hosmer? Maybe everyone was wrong and hes basically just a slap hitter with average power?
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I was surprised to find his stats were really similar in the 1 and 3 last year.
Batting 1: .379/.466/.845
Batting 3: .356/.462/.818

2011 is a different story though.

I'm fine with this. I would have put Gordon #1 or #2, but it is more important to me that we have Gordon, Escobar, AND Cain at the top, in some order.

I'm getting concerned about Hosmer. His power just inexplicably disappeared.

At least with Moose we always knew he had power, he wasn't great in 2012 but still slugged over .400 unlike Hosmer. Then this year the Royals identified a specific problem, followed by Moose rocking and rolling after working on said problem.

Whenever the Royals claim to have identified a problem, I cannot help but roll my eyes.

Its kinda hard to argue against it, unless you have some pre-determined desire to always call BS on that.

Its not like the Royals engaged in revisionist history, they called their shot, a lot of people said "yeah right" or "we'll see" and boom, Moose goes off. Moose struggled for quite a while, so it'd be a hell of a coincidence.

With this isolated example, yes.

How many times, however, has Hoch been "fixed"?

Hosmer IMO just needs time. He is only 23. Pro players don't hit their prime until 27. Gordon is a classic example of this. Just let him keeping hitting and it will eventually click.

Travis Lee is also a valid comparison if Hosmer's power never comes back.

ROFL

I like this.

I took an awful large amount of shit for this lineup and now suddenly everyone is on board...

I see.

And here we go.

If we are bumping Gordon out of the leadoff spot, he must be used to protect Billy, IMO.

Putting Butler/Gordon/Cain makes it much more difficult to pitch around either of our key bats. However, Esky in the leadoff spot is not a good call. He doesn't see enough pitches and only gets on base via hits.