Also, Lough is pretty damn good. What's he hitting, like .300?
Yeah, it's around that ballpark figure, but his defense is just lights out. No way Francouer could have made those plays.
It'd be nice to see KC cut him and find a strong bat for the 2nd base.
Like the one they have sitting in Omaha ? 
Dude has been hitting very well for the last like 20 games. Unfortunately, he's not good at playing 2B, which may be more important than hitting.
As Slimz pointed out a few pages ago, KC is tops in the league defensively (by UZR - which is the most positively regarded, however still flawed defensive metric out there)...despite this, we are still struggling to achieve .500
I, and countless other SABR fans will argue that as important as defense is, decreasing one position defensively for the sake of increasing offensively, on a team that struggles as mightily in scoring runs as KC does is a no brainer.
And I don't think it would be a drastic drop off either...Elliot Johnson currently ranks 8th in UZR @ 2B (min 90 innings played), which is admittedly higher than I thought he would be, but that above average defense also cones with a sub .550 OPS to make a player w/ a .2 WAR on the season. For reference, Chris Getz ranks 14th defensively by UZR @ 2B, an OPS of .490 and a WAR of -.1, so while Elliot IS an improvement it isn't much of one.
Elliot is a good guy to have to spell Johnny G @ 2B, as well as give Escobar/Moose the rare day off, but he is no more of a starting 2B than Getz. If defense is that much of a concern @ 2B, we can always sub Elliot in the game in the 8th/9th in close games that we are winning...
Last point I'll make is that KC is full of flyball pitchers...Santana has our highest GB% of any starter, at 47.5%, and he ranks 37th in MLB in that category, more reason to be more than willing to sacrifice a little D for a guy that could conceivable be .700 OPS player offensively (currently he is @ .801 for Omaha this season) @ the MLB level.