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Sink or Swim for Matt Duffy

At the last minute of the 2016 trade deadline, the Rays traded LHP Matt Moore for prospect Lucius Fox, Michael Santos, and big leaguer Matt Duffy.

Duffy was coming off a surprising rookie year in which he finished 2nd in ROTY voting, losing only to Kris Bryant. At the time of the trade, Duffy was hitting .253/.313/.358 good for 83 wRC+ and 0.9 fWAR. He would go .278/.300/.355 for the rest of the year on the Rays.

Since then? We haven’t seen much of Matt Duffy.

When the Rays acquired the San Francisco shortstop, this is what Matt Silverman had to say:

“We think he is going to be a very good shortstop for us [.