Predicting the Royals’ Opening Day Lineup

Mike Matheny pores over a lineup cardPredicting any particular lineup is a fool’s errand because Royals Manager Mike Matheny is the antithesis of former manager Ned Yost and likes to play around with them. If I count correctly, he had 10 different lineups in the first 15 games last season. That’s a lot of variety.

But, well, this is Royals Review and I am Jeremy “Hokius” Greco. If ever there was a place and a person to be involved with a fool’s errand, it’s here and it’s me. So let’s do this.

RF Whit Merrifield

2B Nicky Lopez

C Salvador Perez

LF Andrew Benintendi

1B Carlos Santana

DH Hunter Dozier

3B Bobby Witt Jr.

SS Adalberto Mondesi

CF Michael Taylor Jr.

It’s too bad Adalberto doesn’t still go by…