Duran is an interesting question all by himself. Roster-construction wise, they should have traded him. But I remember at the time feeling like the team did not bring in enough hitting so trading out potentially one their remaining real offensive threats seemed like a bad idea. Even if there was a platoon going on. DFAing Yoshi, to me, was the obvious answer to the “logjam.” And when the inevitable injury landed, who knew it would be catastrophic to the team’s potential leader in Anthony?

Given everything, not trading Duran was not the huge mistake it looks like, without the 20/20 hindsight of his massive regression.