Last July, in a shockingly gruesome 28-5 loss to the Blue Jays, Jarren Duran provided the game’s defining moment when he “lost it in the twilight” and Raimel Tapia motored around the bases for an inside-the-park grand slam.
Duran sputtered to the finish line in 2022, hitting .184 in July and .180 in August before spending the bulk of September with the Worcester Red Sox. That’s where he started 2023, but the Red Sox gave him another shot and he hasn’t squandered it.
This July, a year removed from perhaps the lowest low, Duran is currently one of baseball’s hottest hitters, most electric base-runners, and most athletic and rangy center-fielders.