Elly De La Cruz, baseball's top prospect, continues to close in on his major-league debut. It's leaving the Reds with a Jonathan India problem. It’s a good problem, but a problem nonetheless, write Ken_Rosenthal and ctrent.
De La Cruz, meanwhile, is pushing for an immediate call-up. Recently named the top prospect in baseball by ESPN and listed in at least the top three everywhere else, De La Cruz is making a joke of the International League. The 6-foot-5 switch-hitter is already inspiring Paul Bunyan-level stories among even the most grizzled veteran players and scouts. Some Reds people who have seen him play call him a “switch-hitting Tatis with upside,” an intriguing notion, to say the least.
The questions regarding De La Cruz concern when he will arrive and where he will play, the latter being more about positional dominoes rather than geography.Where does that leave India? De La Cruz and McLain alternated games at shortstop when the two were together in the minors, with McLain moving to second when De La Cruz was at short and De La Cruz going to third when McLain played shortstop.
Those numbers, as impressive as they may be, are what makes him easy to trade. What makes him difficult to trade is what he does beyond the numbers. With future Hall of Fameryet to play a game this year, India is the unquestioned leader of the team, and his impact on the field is quantifiable. The Reds have hit the third-fewest homers in the majors , but their 4.5 runs per game entering Sunday was the same as the
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