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It's Thursday where I am and that's what matters. Anyway. Eric Hosmer races out of the gates and bolstered by local fans gets voted as the starting 1B in the All-Star game. Considering the stiff competition, what does his triple slash and HR total look like at the break?

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.330/.390/.540

18 HR’s

"We don’t have guys with a long history of being effective in the seventh and eighth innings."
~Trey Hillman, master of understatements.

by RoyalPug on Feb 8, 2012 8:50 PM EST reply actions  

335/410/550

21 HR’s

Don't you ever play GM- Lee "Touch of Gray" Judge

by tiquanunderwear on Feb 8, 2012 8:56 PM EST reply actions  

I don't see any slash line that could possibly overcome

the NY and Boston fan voting blocs. And don’t forget that Pujols now has a (seemingly) much larger fanbase (or potential fanbase) to pull votes from. Bottom line, it’s just not happening.

by Sweep_the_Leg on Feb 8, 2012 9:32 PM EST reply actions  

maybe it would be better to play LIKE his hair was on fire

I’m not sure how sustainable playing with your hair on fire would be.

"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell

by buddyball on Feb 9, 2012 5:48 PM EST up reply actions  

He's the Son of God.

He can do whatever he wants for as long as he wants to.

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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 9, 2012 8:55 PM EST up reply actions  

And Prince

Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com

by RoyalsRetro on Feb 9, 2012 12:03 PM EST up reply actions  

only a 2.720 OPS?
He’ll never get voted in with such crappy numbers

"We don’t have guys with a long history of being effective in the seventh and eighth innings."
~Trey Hillman, master of understatements.

by RoyalPug on Feb 8, 2012 9:51 PM EST up reply actions  

hater

"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell

by buddyball on Feb 9, 2012 5:48 PM EST up reply actions  

no hos for ASG this year or in the near future

if i had to pick two that would make it, i would say soria and gordon, both as manager’s picks.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

--Albert Einstein

by Home Run Tony Cogan on Feb 8, 2012 10:56 PM EST reply actions  

I do think there will be three

Gordon, Soria, and a third, which could be Butler, Perez, Escobar, Moose, or another pitcher.

by Yodazilla on Feb 9, 2012 7:23 AM EST up reply actions  

I would offer

100-1 odds that Hosmer would not be voted in by the fans. He would have to be having an unbelievable season for it to happen. I would say a minimum of .350/.450/.650 might get him the prize.

"Trying is the first step to sucking" -Jimmy Chance

by KHAZAD on Feb 9, 2012 1:55 AM EST reply actions  

Yeah after I posted this I fully realized just how stacked 1B is in the AL

Teixiera, Pujols, Gonzalez, Fielder/Cabrera, Morneau, all of whom are better than Hosmer at this point.

But hey, anything could happen.

by Yodazilla on Feb 9, 2012 6:47 AM EST up reply actions  

Morneau would have to actually make it onto the field to be better than Hosmer.

There is no reason to believe that is likely.

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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 9, 2012 8:56 PM EST up reply actions  

He will need to tear it up in March and April to get the nation's attention.

Something like 15 HRs in April. Also, he needs to be hitting over 0.400

Doubting Thomas, the patron saint of sabermetrics

by Jeff Zimmerman on Feb 9, 2012 9:10 AM EST reply actions  

Hitting .400 at the All-Star break?

Or .400 in March/April (which is a lot more doable)?

by Yodazilla on Feb 9, 2012 10:40 AM EST up reply actions  

The whole time.

It needs to be a historic season to jump above HOFers

Doubting Thomas, the patron saint of sabermetrics

by Jeff Zimmerman on Feb 9, 2012 11:46 AM EST up reply actions  

Maybe if he started "dating" a famous Celeb...

I’d like to see him cuckold Jay-Z and start banging Beyonce, or maybe he turns out to be baseball’s first “out” gay player and we find out his current partner is John Travolta.

by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 9, 2012 10:02 PM EST up reply actions  

Fantastic

I'm waiting for my wave of talent to arrive.

by mitchfreakingmaier! on Feb 10, 2012 10:15 AM EST up reply actions  

.275/.379/.430

But Hosmer, along with Yost, Getz, Frenchy, Chen and Kendall in support, will lead a covert ops mission into Iran to overthrow the Ahmadenijad regime, de-nuclearize the country, and hold free elections…only way he wins the All-Star vote.

by Loose Seal on Feb 9, 2012 10:24 AM EST reply actions  

that idea is crazy enough to work

"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell

by buddyball on Feb 9, 2012 5:49 PM EST up reply actions  

I think it can happen, if a couple things occur

1. Royals have to be surprisingly good (or at least surprising to the national reporters) and appear in some Sunday Night games or whatnot for national exposure; either leading the division or in 2nd place.

2. One of the other AL 1B has an uncharacteristically down year or is inured.

3. One or more of Hosmer’s numbers is really flashy. If he is hitting .350 or more and on pace to hit between 40-50 HR, his OPS is almost irrelevant. Most voters don’t see OBP or SLG.

by Yodazilla on Feb 9, 2012 10:55 AM EST reply actions  

Here are the only numbers that matter

2011 Attendance and Metropolitan Statistical Area Population

2. NY Yankees (Texeira) – 3,653,680 MSA – 18,897,109
5. LA Angels (Pujols) – 3,166,321 MSA – 12,828,837
8. Boston (Gonzalez) – 3,054,001 MSA – 4,552,402
13. Detroit (Fielder) – 2,642,045 MSA – 4,296,250
27. Kansas City (Hosmer) – 1,724,450 MSA – 2,035,334

It’s not happening.

by Sweep_the_Leg on Feb 9, 2012 11:52 AM EST up reply actions  

The only ones?

Don’t you think that’s a little cynical? There are players from small market teams that get in all the time.

by Yodazilla on Feb 9, 2012 2:19 PM EST up reply actions  

Sure, small market teams land players on the All-Star TEAM all the time

However, it seems very difficult for them to get voted in as STARTERS, which is the hypothetical you posed.

For example, here is the list of 2011 AL starters:

C Alex Avila, DET
1B Adrian Gonzalez, BOS
2B Robinson Cano, NYY
3B Adrian Beltre, TEX
SS Asdrubal Cabrera, CLE
OF Jose Bautista, TOR
OF Curtis Granderson, NYY
OF Josh Hamilton, TEX
DH David Ortiz, BOS

Not very many (if any) small market guys there. Basically Cabrera and that’s it.

by Sweep_the_Leg on Feb 9, 2012 2:50 PM EST up reply actions  

So we flip Hosmer and Escobar for the first half.

Problem solved!

I'm waiting for my wave of talent to arrive.

by mitchfreakingmaier! on Feb 9, 2012 2:52 PM EST up reply actions  

Not that I wish for injuries,

but wouldn’t it be funny if both Fielder and Pujols got hurt? Again, don’t wish anything horrible on anyone, except that I can’t help but think it would be funny for those contracts to start out in an over the top horrible way.

I'm waiting for my wave of talent to arrive.

by mitchfreakingmaier! on Feb 9, 2012 11:55 AM EST reply actions  

Ryan Howard's has

if that’s any consolation. Schadenfreude is the right of every Royals fan.

by thelaundry on Feb 9, 2012 3:15 PM EST up reply actions  

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