The evasions come accompanied these days with knowing smiles as Royals officials continue to resist confirming rookie Alex Gordon will be the club?s starting third baseman when the regular season opens two weeks from today. ?It?s still early,? general manager Dayton Moore insisted, ?but he?s doing everything that we expected that he would do. We?ll have some more meetings at the start of (this) week and look at some things.? Gordon is batting .394 this spring after hitting a homer in Sunday?s 6-5 loss to the San Francisco Giants.