Jonathan India had an excellent rookie season, as we all know.

This season has basically been one step from worst case scenario with him. He got hurt very early on with a hamstring injury. However, he was not hitting well before that. He has shown some flashes here and there, but on the season it's been pretty ugly.

At this point, this is what we are looking at through 59 games and 247 PA:

-0.5 bWAR
55 hits
7 HR
.243/.308/385 - 693 OPS
85 OPS+
61 Ks against only 12 BB

On top of the poor offensive numbers he currently has a -0.8 defensive WAR

In short, its been bad.

My hope is this is a sophomore/injury riddled season. Clearly he will be the guy at 2B going into 2023. However, if he is healthy next year and its looking like this again, well, thankfully we have Arroyo, Marte, McLain, De La Cruz, Steer, Encarnacion-Stroud in the minors. Personally, I was not sold on India while he was in the minors, he had very questionable numbers at the minor league level. He showed up to ST prior to 2021 and started hitting the cover off the ball, and then that continued through the 2021 season. With that said, maybe that was a mirage, and the sum of his minor league numbers is moreso what we should expect?

What are we thinking on India right now and moving forward? Is this just a sophomore slump/injury riddled year?