Lucas Duda is going to be a trivia answer in 10 years. “What former starter for the 2015 World Series Mets team later signed and played with their opponent in that Series, the Kansas City Royals?” If we’re all being totally honest here, there is a 0% chance that Duda is relevant to anything beyond the 2018 Royals and probably only a 20% chance that he will be a Royal this September.
In a vacuum, it’s simple to see why General Manager Dayton Moore went out and signed Duda. In eight Major League seasons, Duda has hit at an above average level for six of them.