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ESPN.com · May 9, 2018

How can MLB's unluckiest hitters turn their year around?

While batting average might have given way to on-base percentage and slugging percentage and a whole host of advanced statistics, there's still something a little disconcerting about seeing a 1 as the first digit in a player's batting average more than a month into the season. There are quite a few former All-Stars below the Mendoza Line one-fifth of the way through 2018, but for many, bad luck has been the deciding factor, not eroding skills.

Didi Gregorius is off to an epic start for the Yankees, so he has to cool off -- or does he? We tell you which big beginnings you can bank on.

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