Your Jeff Francoeur apologist quote of the day

The year-after-year Jeff Francoeur propaganda -- or, as I shall henceforth call it, “Francoeurganda” -- has been well-cataloged by now. No matter how poorly he does, someone is going to say that this, by gum, is the year he breaks out. No matter how little he progresses, Francoeur himself is going to say that he’s working on his plate discipline. You can set your watch by this alternate universe jive. And frankly, I’d miss it if we didn’t have it.

But I gotta tell ya, friends, we may have peaked with this stuff. Because I see no way anyone can pull off a nutsier bit of Francoeurganda than what Royals hitting coach Kevin Seitzer just pulled, explaining away Frecnhy’s brutal spring training, during which he had an 0-for-25 skid:

“From a swing standpoint, when you watch his video, it is clean and it’s good. It’s solid. He was staying inside the ball. He was staying on the ball. It’s just that his timing was all jacked up because he wasn’t ready to get on it when it’s time to get on it. That’s because he was making sure everything is in its place and exactly right.”

Look, I don’t expect Jeff Francoeur’s own hitting coach to simply come out and say “yeah, he’s having problems and may not be all that good at hitting,” but it seems like there is some truth that can be told between, you know, the real truth, and “he isn’t hitting because he’s making sure everything is just so.”

Now, let us all sit back and wait until June when Francoeur is benched and he demands a trade to a place where he can play full time.