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Cincinnati’s two-year deal with Jonathan India shows their commitment to cost certainty

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We don’t know if Jonathan India will be a 2B for much, if any of the 2024 Cincinnati Reds season.

We don’t know if he’ll play 1B. We don’t know if he’ll play LF. We know he’ll probably DH, but only if the hamstring and foot injuries that have plagued him the last two seasons subside.

What we do know - and what Major League Baseball’s arbitration process knows - is that he was the 2021 National League Rookie of the Year, and was so deservingly. For all the qualms about what he’s not been the last two years, we all know that in his first season, when he was truly healthy, he hit the snot out of the ball en route to a ~4 WAR season and took home some hardware, hardware that arbitration values retroactively much moreso than the projections from MLB teams often advise.