Bring Gordon Back Up

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Left fielder Alex Gordon seems to be finding his swing at Class AAA Omaha. He went three for five with two homers Friday night in a 10-7 victory at Reno, which makes him seven for 16 with five walks in his last four games.

Gordon is now batting .324 with five homers in 10 games for the O-Royals. He also carried a .457 on-base percentage and a .784 slugging percentage into Saturday night’s game at Las Vegas.

Ridiculous. I'm wondering, if he's too comfortable in Omaha, should the team send him somewhere else for these assignments? Otherwise, get the kid back in KC. - TL

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but has he pulled off any 7-6-3 double plays?

I went to the Plaza and said "this is where the parade will be held when Dayton Moore gets fired"

by BHWick on May 17, 2010 8:07 AM EDT reply actions

Current numbers are even more ridiculous...

.364 BA, .795 Slug, .517 OBP and OPS’ing at 1.313. Also has one outfield assist and has played LF cleanly so far. I could see AG being back up in KC if the Royals end up moving DDJ before the the trade deadline.

by RaulDuke on May 17, 2010 8:29 AM EDT reply actions

Hasn't he

always batted well in AAA and then fizzled at KC?

by stlJeff on May 17, 2010 9:26 AM EDT reply actions

uh

I think his entire AAA experience amounts to under a month, total.

DM, the nurturer of minor league prospects, did directly promote Gordon from AA to Kansas City in 2007, and kept him here as he started slowly

I went to the Plaza and said "this is where the parade will be held when Dayton Moore gets fired"

by BHWick on May 17, 2010 9:29 AM EDT up reply actions

Seems like that is true about his AAA stats being way better

Then sucking for the KC Royals. He can stay put where he is until he is a gold glove left fielder too. It’s not like we are in a penant race and need him back. He’s gettin swings in in Omaha.

by RoyalsnMN on May 17, 2010 9:34 AM EDT up reply actions

But has he wiped that smirk off his face?

That’s all I care about.

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by RoyalsRetro on May 17, 2010 9:37 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs

Shaking Magic 8 Ball...

…Doubtful. He’s just one of those sarcastic, I’m-smarter-and-prettier-and-hotter-than-your-are kind of guys.

"Sir,--It has been wittily remarked that there are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third and most aggravated is statistics." *The National Observer* (June 13, 1891): p. 93-94.

by timlacy on May 17, 2010 10:34 AM EDT up reply actions

I know it may appear that way

but in the 3 times I’ve met the guy, he’s the exact opposite. All three were during his monstrous AA season in Wichita when he should have had a stick up his ass. He was a lot more personable than most of the team, including Billy Butler.

by kansasjhawk044 on May 17, 2010 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions

We don't need him here

Until we do something with the guys we got. For real, he needs at least 150 ABs in AAA. If he’s still raking, then yeah, bring him back. Understand, though, that in doing so someone else has to get hurt, traded, DFA’d, whatever.

by Dadunca on May 17, 2010 10:15 AM EDT reply actions

He's still striking out a lot

14 times in 44 AB’s. That’s 32%. With his hands, if he’s striking out 25% or more to AAA pitchers, there’s something there that MLB pitchers will be able to abuse. Let him keep learning LF and working on his timing for another couple weeks. It’s a lost season, and you might as well get him as reps as possible.

by kcdc1 on May 17, 2010 10:34 AM EDT reply actions

K rate

his K rate is WAY to high for me to even begin to get excited about his numbers. Anyone who swings and misses as much as he does is going to struggle.

by Mostate44 on May 17, 2010 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions

Tell that to Evan Longoria or Ryan Howard

by RaulDuke on May 17, 2010 4:16 PM EDT up reply actions

I'd say yes

but who are you going to sit? Yuniesky Betancourt? Scott Podsednik? Rick Ankiel (when he comes back)? No way, those guys are all way more important to this team’s present and future. Gordon’s just going to have to patiently wait his turn while the superstars to their thing.

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by Matt Klaassen on May 17, 2010 11:17 AM EDT reply actions

You will look back on this 68 win season

and think, “Man, it’s a good thing we didn’t play all those kids…we could have ended up with only 66 wins. THAT would have been a disaster.”

"Now…put that in your [BLEEP]ing pipe and smoke it." -Hal McRae

"I was doing this when BJ was in his father's nutsack." -Renzo Gracie

by Sweep_the_Leg on May 17, 2010 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions

And who needs the #1 overall pick in the draft anyway?

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by RoyalsRetro on May 17, 2010 1:05 PM EDT up reply actions

But can he handle the 3-6-3 double play?

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by Top Ramen on May 17, 2010 1:19 PM EDT reply actions

So Alex is doing what he has always done

Utterly destroy minor league pitching.

That he was sent down at all is one Dayton’s more completely dumb ideas (and that’s saying something).

by kcbottom9th on May 17, 2010 1:41 PM EDT reply actions

Don't bring him back up

unless you’re going to put him at a position (at this point I don’t even care which one) and play him every day. Until The Yost of the Town is fed up enough with somebody else in the lineup to bench them or get rid of them somehow, don’t jerk Gordon around any more than has already been done.

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by The Ol' Perfesser on May 17, 2010 3:23 PM EDT reply actions

While The Mighty

Podzilla is spiraling back to earth on the big team, Gordon is rotting in Omaha. LF is not splitting the atom. I’m sure he could have worked it out with little more than OJT in MLB. Treyton were determined to keep him out of the lineup for whatever reason. His K rate is alarming, but it’s never been that high in MLB, and it is a small sample. Does our management really believe Podz is better that Gordon at anything but maybe stealing bases and bunting? Gordon needs regular playing time for the big team, and a rental like Podz or, god forbid, Rocky should not keep Gordon out of the lineup.

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by philofthenorth on May 17, 2010 3:36 PM EDT reply actions