Francoeur

I haven't spent too much time on Jeff Francoeur's start, actually I don't think I've wrote one word, for whatever reason. There's a lot of speculating around the Royals blogosphere right now on whether or not he finally figured things out, put me in with the wait and see crowd. It would be easier to believe if he hadn't done this before, like last year. Looking at his career we see that his best month is April, so his season thus far may just be par for the course. We'll know more in a few weeks, as May is his worst month. If he hits June with an OPS over .800, well, then I may start coming around.

Here is a chart featuring his OPS by month, for his career and his 2010 season.
Career, 2010

It's not exactly a confidence booster, is it? That's why the wait and see approach probably is the way to go. As you can see, the rest of his splits follow a similar trajectory.

	Split	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
	April/March	620	571	82	159	36	6	23	104	34	86	.278	.321	.483	.804
	May	601	559	69	140	24	2	15	79	22	111	.250	.286	.381	.667
	June	526	490	43	127	18	1	13	64	26	94	.259	.301	.380	.681
	July	529	494	68	136	28	1	20	79	21	95	.275	.312	.457	.769
	August	669	618	80	168	36	5	18	81	38	121	.272	.321	.434	.755
	Sept/Oct	620	575	79	161	34	2	19	81	34	116	.280	.323	.445	.768

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table

(I'm not sure why it's taken me this long to discover chartgo.com but now that I know it's there, well, I can't promise I'll go all Marshall Eriksen, but I can't promise I won't either.)