I don’t think that the Kansas City Royals would have made the 2025 playoffs if they had kept Brady Singer. Singer was good this year, but he wouldn’t have solved the main problem with the team, which was that their offense was flatter than a can of Dr. Pepper left open overnight all year.

But the Royals traded Singer precisely because they wanted a guy to help their offense be the kind of happy, fizzy, fresh Dr. Pepper that leads to playoff berths. Unfortunately, it’s no exaggeration to say that Jonathan India was a total disaster after trading Cincinnati red for Kansas City blue.

India was so bad that the Royals have an interesting choice: do they even tender him a contract for 2026? Should they?

India will not make a back-breakingly large sum of money next year. India made $7 million

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