[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

Thankfully, they're still pitchers, so when they stand at the plate with a bat in their hands, what they're doing can really only loosely be defined as "hitting."

Even a guy like Tim Hudson - who was a good enough hitter in college to DH and play some CF - has spent so little time honing those skills over the course of his career, he's basically an automatic out at this point.

And two of the guys the Royals will be throwing - Vargas and Shields - are actually good athletes who can hold their own "hitting" with just about any pitcher around (Bumgarner is a different type of animal).

That's great!