June 29th, 2024 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka It’s one of those things that no one wants to say out load but everyone is thinking: utility infielder and Dodgers pro tem third baseman Cavan Biggio has got to go.
There. I said it out loud.
To be brutally honest, Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman never should have traded 23-year-old minor league right-hander Braydon Fisher to the Toronto Blue Jays for the 29-year-old Houston, TX native and son of Hall of Fame utility infielder Craig Biggio in the first place. One need only take a quick look at Biggio’s 2024 numbers with Toronto to immediately see that that he was having a horrible season. In the 44 games Biggio appeared in with the Blue Jays, he was slashing .200/.323/.291/.614, with two home runs and nine RBIs. Again, we’re talking 44 games and 110 official at-bats here, during which he struck out 42 times.
It gets worse.
In the 10 games that Biggio has appeared in since joining the Dodgers on June 12, he is 5-for-28 (.176), with zero doubles, zero triples, zero home runs, and one RBI. And though he has walked twice, he has already struck out 12 times. This figures out to striking out 42.85% of the time, which is closer to half of the time than one-third of the time, which is simply unacceptable at baseball’s highest.
Again being brutally honest here, it appears that Dodgers manager Dave Roberts is being told from above to play Biggio (almost) every day until he ‘works through’ his horrific slump. The problem is, that ‘quick look’ thing suggests otherwise.
(NBC Bay Area Sports)
A solution?
Believe it or not, the solution is right in front of Friedman’s nose, and it wouldn’t cost him anywhere near the $4,210,000 he is paying Biggio this season.
His name is Andre Lipcius, a 26-year-old utility infielder who is absolutely tearing it up at Triple-A Oklahoma City. We’re talking seriously tearing it up.
In the 73 games in which the Annapolis, MD native and third-round draft pick in 2019 by the Detroit Tigers out of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville has appeared in at OKC this season, he is slashing an MLB-worthy .304/.373/.561/.934, with 18 doubles, two triples, 18 home runs, and 59 RBIs.
(BBC)
And if you are concerned that Lipcius may not yet be MLB-ready, he appeared in 13 games with the Detroit Tigers in 2023, where he went 10-for-35 (.286), with one double, one home run, and four RBIs. Along the way, he walked three times while striking out eight times – against major league pitching.
Meaning no disrespect to Andrew Friedman, Calvan Biggio is not the answer, whereas Andre Lipcius very well could be.
Play Ball!
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I don’t get it. Makes no sense. Biggio is terrible. I was very disappointed when I heard about the trade for Biggio and that they were not bringing Lipcius up to give him a look.
IMHO, it seems like Friedman has been slipping the last few years in his trades. Reading to many of the presses stories on his abilities as a P.O.B.O. and making trades. He has become “so vain”!
Well trading for Biggio and Gallo have not helped his resume. Trading for sh*t and hoping to make it Shinola is not a good strategy in my book. AF is good, but overrated.