Buying low on César Hernández makes sense

Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty ImagesThere are seemingly more notable players on the free agent market than ever before as a result of being non-tendered, which plays perfectly into the hands of teams who have holes but will not spend extravagantly to fill them.

The Cleveland Indians are one such team, and former Philadelphia Phillies second baseman César Hernández is a recently non-tendered player who fills a hole. His projected $11.8 million salary in arbitration is a non-starter for the Indians, as it was for the Phillies, who cast him into free agency.

Hernández made $7.75 million in his penultimate arbitration year in 2019, which turned out to be a massive setback year in which his swing…