2025 season has not been kind to former Toronto Blue Jays infielder Cavan Biggio

As a player with five years of service time, Biggio had the ability to refuse the optional assignment and become a free agent. Biggio accepted the assignment.

It's unusual to see a player consent to an optional assignment when they have the requisite service time necessary to reject one.

Biggio may have been limited to exclusively minor league deals in free agency and would therefore lose the benefits of being on the 40-man roster that he would retain should he accept an optional assignment from the Royals.

Biggio has been playing with the Storm Chasers ever since and hasn't played very well hitting .256 with 0 home runs, 10 hits and 6 rbi, in 40 games.

Biggio is a veteran of seven MLB seasons and with the Blue Jays he had a slash line with a .240/.368/.430 (good for a wRC+ of 118) across his first two seasons in the majors.

That was enough to earn him down-ballot Rookie of the Year consideration in the AL during the 2019 season and make him the club's on-paper everyday third baseman headed into the 2021 season.

Unfortunately, things started to unravel from there. Biggio hit just .224/.322/.356 with a wRC+ of 84 that eventually got him pushed into a part-time role that year.

He wouldn't recapture his everyday job with the Blue Jays ever again, although his .220/.330/.361 (100 wRC+) performance over the next two seasons was enough to make him a viable bench player in a utility role.

While Biggio seemed to have carved out a solid part-time role for himself with Toronto, that changed during the 2024 campaign.

He struggled badly across 44 games, hitting just .200/.323/.291 with a wRC+ of 86, and that step backwards in conjunction with the Blue Jays' losing record was enough to convince Toronto brass to pull the plug on a player who was once considered to be part of their core alongside Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette.

Biggio spent the rest of the season bouncing between the Dodgers, Giants, and Braves organizations and finished the year with a .197/.314/.303 (84 wRC+) slash line in the big leagues across 78 games.

His 61 wRC+ with the Royals this year is the 35th-worst figure in the majors among players with at least 80 plate appearances, and for a Royals club that's tied for third from the bottom in the majors in runs scored his bat was clearly not producing enough to justify his roster spot.

The fact that he Biggio didn't elect for free agency and accepted his demotion to Triple-A Omaha speaks volumes about his options outside of Kansas City.

Hopefully he can turn it around and make his way back to the big leagues in 2025.

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