They might do it, but I doubt it. Dillon has a hot bat right now and Kapler has a cold one, but generally, Kapler is just a much better hitter than Dillon, and both are due for regression. I say stick with the known quantity who’s more likely to help us in the future.

Another option is to trade away Gross. Joyce makes him redundant.

Not only is PTB coming back but a bunch others. I started a short debate at the end of the gdt about this but here is coming back soon or at least their DL stints are near an end.

PTB
Bartlett
Kaz
Bradford
Shouse
Percival (ugh I know)

I would Cut Kaper when PTB comes back
Send Brignac back to the minors to work on 2B everyday (I’m a huge Brignac guy as you know but Dillon as earned a spot for now and can platoon with Zobrist at 2B, Zobrist than platooning with Joyce in RF)
I would have Kazmir working out, out of the pen in rehab and than put him there when he comes back unless you can work out a trade (Sonny or Niemann). When he comes back cut Izzy or Wheeler whichever is left after Bradford comes back.
Bradford- Izzy of Wheeler, most likely Izzy as AF could try to work out a trade with Wheeler until Kaz is ready.
Shouse- Choate (the easy one)
Percy- Cut him if he refuses to retire

I’ve defended Dillon and in terms of hitting, I don’t think the gap between Kapler and Dillon is as significant as most probably think. For example, Kapler has a career 750 OPS vs. Dillon’s 773 MLE OPS (according to minorleaguesplits.com; If someone has better comparable measures, by all means correct me). Age isn’t a factor as they are separated by less than a month. However, poor start or not, Kapler will probably hit lefties better and play better defense. Dillon can play more positions, but doesn’t seem to play any of them particularly well. Unless they want to go with a Joyce-Zobrist platoon with Aybar at second when Bartlett and Burrell comes back, it would be nice to have that RH bat to occasionally fill in at RF.