It’s actually a bit surprising that it took the Royals this long to make the move. Biggio struggled to a .176/.300/.250 slash line in 82 plate appearances with one homer, four RBI and a 20/11 K/BB ratio. Expect a corresponding move to be announced on Sunday. Fantasy managers and baseball fans alike will certainly be clamoring for it to be Jac Caglianone that replaces him on the roster.

It’s Biggio’s first homer of the season, and his first homer as a member of the Royals. Even with the roundtripper, he’s still hitting an ugly .191/.321/.255 while only being valuable to the Royals because of his versatility. It wasn’t that long ago that Biggio looked like a fantasy thing. Sometimes it doesn’t work out.

We were mystified that Biggio even managed to make the Royals, and now he’s started eight of the team’s 15 games, all of them at premium offensive positions (he was at first tonight). He’s simply a bad hitter, and he’s particularly poorly suited to Kansas City’s home ballpark. There’d be so many better uses of his roster spot.

Good to see that this odd fascination seems over. Biggio, who is 4-for-14, started five of the Royals’ first seven games, with three of those coming at first base when Vinnie Pasquantino was limited to DH. Biggio did DH on Friday, but the Royals have rotated players in that spot since. Maikel Garcia is actually there tonight.