It's so Royals to have gone through the steroid era without touching that record.

Keep doubting Gary Gaetti, Chili Davis and Dean Palmer....
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Key word - should be, he should have developed into a Mark Teixeira type power hitter.

He'd beat all three, because he would eat them before they crossed the finish line.

On Hosmer: He IS Hal Morris. Who was Hal Morris? The greatest inconsequential, non-impactful .300 hitter in Royals history.

Hal Morris played for KC one year, as DH, in 1998. Here's his season line:
1998 stats: 127 games, 516 ABs, 146 singles, 27 doubles, 2 triples, 1 HR, 40 RBI, .309 average.

Does that sound like Hosmer or what?

Royals won 72 games that year.

We should start calling Hosmer "Morris" until he proves otherwise.

Hos probably has better run production than that, but yeah, that's a close comp.

Oh, something else that is amusing. Know what Hal Morris is doing now?

He's the Head of Scouting for the Anaheim Angels.

Interesting.....i was thinking Hos is like Kevin Seitzer. Hits for decent average. Very little power.....
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If only Hos could dance like Morris in the batters box.

The only thing Hosmer has been good at has been hitting doubles, kind of like what Belly did a couple years ago. No power, but he hits doubles. The season is about 1/3rd complete. If you take Hosmer's production so far and multiply by 3 -assuming his play remains the same the rest of the year, his 2014 line would be:

633 AB (he won't get 600 ABs)
177 singles
54 doubles (that's not going to happen)
0 triples
3 homers
69 RBI
.280 average.

Hoz is an arrogant punk who should be sent down but, The Royals.

being sent down isn't going to get him hr power.


what other reason should he be sent down?

There's definitely a disturbing trend in terms of becoming too contact oriented over the past 2-3 years, not just with Eric Hosmer but with all the Royals hitters.

Hosmer looked to have regained the ability to loft the ball over the last 4 months of last season. Not sure where that went over the offseason, but it's damned disappointing.

He's still hitting the ball hard a lot and hitting a lot of screamers... but he's not generating any loft.

You could say similar things about Gordon and Butler, too.

The sad thing is... this team doesn't need those guys to be 40 HR boppers to be good. It doesn't even really need them to hit 30 HR apiece. It needs 20 HR and 40 2B or so each, all numbers they're quite capable of producing.

I think Hos will start to hit for some power. He'll do what he did last year and heat up the power stroke in one month and then fade back to nothing. I say he finishes with something like 12-14 HR's and 70+ RBI. It'll be meaningless numbers when we are at the bottom of the Wild Card pack.

Package deal, I'd be happy to see Relish get shipped out with Billy.

Clearly Butler's gravitational pull is causing all of our hitter's homeruns to die and lose momentum keeping them in the park, and leaving us with an abundance of warning track power.