. For the moment, Royals manager Ned Yost can count just two certainties in his club’s batting order this season. Center fielder Lorenzo Cain will bat third, while first baseman Eric Hosmer will bat fourth. The rest, he says, remains a fluid proposition.
"We haven’t even begun to settle on a lineup yet," Yost said on Saturday morning.
The Royals will conduct internal meetings to discuss the lineup and other roster questions in the coming weeks, Yost said. But for now, he remains noncommittal about how the batting order might look when the club opens the season against the Minnesota Twins on April 3.