There’s not a lot of certainty surrounding the 2017 Orioles lineup, but manager Buck Showalter has one thing he hopes won’t be featured in it again: center fielder Adam Jones batting leadoff.
“Adam did well there for a while and I think to take better advantage of his skills, in a perfect world, he’d hit somewhere else in the order,” Showalter said Thursday at the team’s season-ending news conference. “That’s something that I’m hoping and I plan making happen between now [and then].”
Jones assumed the leadoff role on May 27 in the middle of a terrible early season slump, when he was batting .