Royals Have Not Confirmed Gordon As Starting 3B

Royals officials continue to resist confirming rookie Alex Gordon will be the club’s starting third baseman when the regular season opens two weeks from today.

"It’s still early," general manager Dayton Moore insisted, "but he’s doing everything that we expected that he would do. We’ll have some more meetings at the start of (this) week and look at some things." “He’s been great,” manager Buddy Bell said. “I’ll say this: I don’t think he has to play any better to make the team.”

Gordon is batting .394 this spring after hitting a homer in Sunday’s 6-5 loss to the San Francisco Giants. That includes a seven-for-15 surge over his last six games since returning from a bruised shoulder suffered in a March 9 game against the Angels. Gordon, 23, was the consensus minor-league player of the year in 2006 when he batted .325 at Class AA Wichita with 29 homers and 101 RBIs in 130 games.

The Royals are unlikely to make any official move until the end of spring training because Gordon is, technically, a minor-league invite who must be added to the 40-man roster. Stay Tuned.
Source: The Kansas City Star