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“Great, kid. Don’t get cocky.”

So maybe Han Solo was saying it to Luke Skywalker aboard the Millennium Falcon, but we’re going to use it here to refer to Trevor Story and his sophomore season.

We all know the story of how Story broke into Major League Baseball last season on a home run hitting barrage. However, this season has been a different story.

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Entering Thursday’s play, Story was hitting .170 with six homers and 13 RBI. Story hit 27 homers and struck out 130 times in 371 at-bats last season before his rookie year was cut short by a thumb injury. This year, he’s already whiffed 42 times in 94 at-bats. That’s 44.6 percent of the time and a number that simply won’t work.

Is it because he’s cocky? No, but Story does appear to have home run on his mind when he steps to the plate. He said earlier this week that he wasn’t going to change his game and “swing soft.” He’s also said that, because he swings hard, he’s going to hit the ball in the air, meaning you’ll see a lot of flyouts or homers with a hard-swinging upper cut.

No one is asking him to change his game, but it would be great to have him add some singles and doubles into the mix as well.