We write 2001 and the Arizona Diamondbacks are on their way to win the World Series. In one of multiple and hardly noticed transactions, the Atlanta Braves sign 16-year old Junior Guerra as an international amateur free agent.
His first years of professional baseball are as a catcher, but apart from one year in the rookie leagues as a 20 year old, he barely gets on base.
The batting skills were far from good, perhaps his defensive work behind the plate neither, but the arm should have been intriguing enough, because the Braves decide to convert him into a reliever during the 2006 season.