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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
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.
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Hud needs to teach them how to get that backspin.