Offensive Offense

The Royals offense is leaving Royals fans and Buddy Bell scratching our heads. When the Royals broke camp this spring they had a team batting average of .301 and all seemed right with the baseball gods, but Buddy Bell knew the truth.
The Royals currently hold the 6th worst batting average, .237, in the majors. The next lowest is Baltimore who is currently spanking us 2-0 for the weekend set. In the Friday night game the Royals left 10 men on the bases and they were also 1-for-16 with runners in scoring position.
Batting Averages of the 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 hitters for the Royals this season are:
Mark Teahen- .161
Mike Sweeney- .179
Alex Gordon- .091
Emil Brown- .133
Ryan Shealy- .103
If that's the batting average of the meat of your order, your team has a serious problem.
Although the Royals are not on the bottom of all statistical categories. They actually lead the majors with the most team strikeouts(not including the 10K they had in the Friday night game).
Someone besides Reggie Sanders, hitting .500, needs to figure out how to hit the ball and get te Royals off this trend.
The poor offense wouldn't standout as much as it does right now for several reasons...First of all it has only been 11 games, so the sample size it quite small. Also the starting pitching so far has been decent unlike in previous years making the offensive weakness a glaring problem. Granted they only have 3 wins to show for it, but Royals starters do have 6 quality starts already this season.
In past years Royals fans have been let down so much by the pitching that we haven't paid that much attention to the offense.

They say "hitting is contagious," but the Royals bats must have Gonorrhea because they sure don't want to catch it.