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Originally Posted by BWillie
To be fair, Moose has been platooned with Valencia mainly since returning from Omaha. Hosmer doesn't get to platoon with anybody. Hosmer's numbers would be much much better if he was platooned. Bottom line, Moose still needs to improve to be an everyday player.
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Valencia spent the first 3 weeks of that time sitting on the DL and only recently became an option again. He also has only started 6 games since returning. It's a platoon, mostly, but not a straight platoon.
Hosmer is actually only a .680 OPS guy against RHP (He is .616 against LHP). So playing in a straight platoon actually wouldn't help him that much.
I was just pointing out that for as much crap as Moustakas takes, he has been a beneficial player (still not a superstar like he was thought to possibly be coming out of MiLB, but a solid starter) for the team since his demotion and emergency promotion.
Perhaps the Royals should see if a similar wakeup call can jar Eric Hosmer out of his shit-tastic season. Because remaining calm and saying all is well sure as shit isn't working.