Joe Posnanski explores the mind of the Royals front office in a typically excellent post. The subject is, “Whom do the Royals send down to make room for Ryan Freel?”

Anyway, they had to find a spot for Ryan Freel on Tuesday … shouldn’t be a problem finding a roster spot for him on THIS team. But the Royals, being the Royals, found they had a difficult choice. Sort of a cosmic choice, really.

Do you send down:

A) Luis Hernandez

or

B) Tony Pena Jr.

Philosophers have pondered this question right there with the chicken and the egg one. The correct answer, Aristotle said, is “You send down both.” But Aristotle had a very weak understanding of the Royals minor league system. Shoot, the Royals carried BOTH THESE GUYS, so you know we’re a long way from Leibniz’s “best of all possible worlds.”

Joe goes on to make a very good case for one:

So, I would take Hernandez, the lesser of two evils, the Kit Kat in the “I’m starving and have to find something to eat in this vending machine.”

The Royals on Tuesday, of course, kept Tony Pena Jr. instead.

Treat yourself by reading the whole thing.