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While in the middle of getting ready for a wedding rehearsal (not mine) and trying to come up with supplemental voiceover for that movie we made last summer (Ron is an Island, www.ronisanisland.com), I thought I could try to figure out something good to write about.  While reading that Alberto Callapso was arrested for a DUI, I think I found something to riff on more a minute, and here it is: release Alberto Callapso.

That’s pretty much it.  Mellinger’s blog recapping his moves the last few years made me realize that we have FOUR utility infielders–four.  Mike Aviles is our starting shortstop, and if he careers out at .270 and just reaches the balls that are near him, fine.  If not, then he’ll be, what, a second baseman/shortstop/third baseman?  That’s fine on its own, if he doesn’t continue to hit.  We can’t assume he’ll be lights out the rest of his career.  Just like any other organization, we have to look at all of our great “one year and done” players (Jon Nunnally, Carlos Febles, pretty much any Rule 5 player who is not Joakim Soria).  So, if Aviles ends up utility, fine.  Then there’s Tony Pena.  He’s our backup shortstop.  Fine.  If he hit above .200, too, then we could place him at second base or third base at the ends of games, but for some reason, we don’t do that.  Fine.  Then we have Esteban German, who can hit (apparently), has good speed, and has been out of options since we got him in ‘05 or ‘06 or whenever we claimed that guy.  He’s not an outfielder.  I was at the game that hit him in the face two years ago against Oakland, and my friend Rick and I had the same reaction, “Did that… no… that didn’t hit him in the… did that hit him in the face?  It couldn’t have, it was a fly b… no, it hit him in the face).  He’s below average in the infield, too.  “We’re gonna give German a chance at shortstop.”  That last two starts.  And then there’s Callapso…

That’s four middle infielders.  I’m okay with two and a half men (German being Charlie Sheen’s nephew, here,… or child, I’m not sure what that show is about).  But Callapso?  I’ve been told, once again, it’s a guy that can hit well (which means passable), fields “okay” (which means not passable), and has a domestic violence charge.  This was in the off-season.  Since then, he doesn’t play, but when he does, he barely hits, barely fields, and drives drunk between his manning his seat on the Royals bench.  And he beat his wife.  Let’s extend his contract!

Alberto Callapso is out of options, doesn’t play, and has seemingly been replaced by Mike Aviles as the “second baseman of the future” (just don’t tell Mike Aviles that).  Now, it’d be a dicey issue if Callapso was batting .300 with even, say, 35 RBIs.  But he isn’t.  Sure, he bats .290, but that’s out of 100 at-bats.  And he has 4 RBIs.  And as of this writing, he has one more arrest than he did when we traded for him and already had character issues.  Then, it’s not dicey.  He’s dead weight with community service.  Let him serve his 200 hours and then send his butt to Japan with DJ Carrasco, Aaron Guiel, and Tom Selleck

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