If Uribe doesn't make the play earlier, does that make Gomez's night any better? Not saying that it changes anything about where he should be in the order, but as others have noted, it probably reflects more on RR than it does on Gomez. From one standpoint, I don't know that Gomez in the 2 hole (for now) is any worse than Gomez anywhere else in the lineup. He's gonna be a problem no matter where he is, and it would be hard to put him anywhere but 7 or 8. You sure don't wan't him at 8, so that means he really probably has to be at 7. He's probably better at 7 than 2, but I don't know what the marginal difference is (for now).