“You’re constantly thinking about what else you could do,” Hoyer said. “That’s natural. But I do feel like, when I think back on the most obvious thing that people talk about — starting pitching at the Trade Deadline — honestly, I haven’t really thought about that much since early August, because I know what the market was and how tight the starting-pitching market was.
“I know to acquire players that could impact a pennant race, it would’ve cost us players that impacted our second half in a big way on the team.”