He may well say that, it doesn't mean it's not a question that should be asked. It's an obviously follow up question to the trade: "Matt, don't you wish you'd just kept Smith instead of having to trade significant capital for Priester?" Reporters ask potentially obvious questions all the time, but no one is in his head and knows for sure what the rationale was. That's why you ask and then report on it.
Sad news: Both Octavio Dotel and the sister of Nelson Cruz among those dead in a nightclub roof collapse incident.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/44591287/ex-mlb-pitcher-octavio-dotel-dies-nightclub-roof-collapse
Let's not forget that last spring in the wake of Murphy's "quantum leap" prediction, Turang slashed 312/375/441/816 in April before slowly declining in May/June and then having a pretty awful second half. It's a great 10 games, but he needs to prove it for longer.
The salient point here is that regardless of the content of the link, simply posting a link is just making work for everyone else to go read it. Instead, you should at least summarize the key points. Do not just post a URL. That's true anytime, not just starting a thread (but especially then).
As a lefty hitter, that's definitely wrong. :) I mean, it's obviously the bottom hand, but as RFC notes, the back hand is the power hand, not the one that's leading the bat through the zone.