Luke Voit wasn’t originally part of the package the Washington Nationals were going to get in return for Juan Soto and Josh Bell, but Eric Hosmer used his no-trade protections to stay in San Diego before he was eventually traded to Boston. Voit, who’d debuted with St. Louis and played in New York (AL) before he was traded to the Padres, was surprised by the deal, which sent him from a contender to the basement-dwelling Nats, who weren’t going to be anywhere near the postseason in the second season of their organizational reboot.
“Obviously, a little bit surprising,” he said once he was officially a National.