Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY SportsAccording to fomer CBSSports.com baseball writer and current MLB Network talking head Jon Heyman, J.J. Hoover has won his arbitration case against the Cincinnati Reds.
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) February 5, 2016 The two sides had been a comically small $175,000 apart in their initially submitted figures, which had me initially speculating that the reason why no settlement had been reached for 2016 was because the two sides were discussing a multi-year deal (akin to the one Sam LeCure signed prior to the 2014 season, for instance). That $175,000 difference was apparently important enough to the Reds organization that they opted to go to a hearing over the case for…
