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Flipping Highly Coveted BBCOR Bats as Metaphor for Jed Hoyer’s Offseason Pursuits

Related Topics: Jed Hoyer, Kyle Tucker

Have you ever been totally certain a particular situation or decision was such a no-brainer that it had no option but to pan out or pay off, only to be sorely disappointed in short order? And I don’t even mean life-changing stuff, maybe it’s just a pretty mundane deal that makes a ton of sense in the moment before aging incredibly quickly. Like extending David Bote for five years and $15 million and watching him post 0.7 fWAR in that time, or trading for Michael Soroka and having him leave with an injury two innings into his first game.