The Arizona Diamondbacks signed infielder Wilmer Flores to a one-year deal with a $4.25MM guarantee, reports ESPN’s Jeff Passan (Twitter links).
Flores is a long-surmised source of dormant offense, and the Diamondbacks are taking a chance on being the team to wake up his bat. The Mets no longer deemed his offense worth the cost, non-tendering him just a few weeks ago rather than take him to arbitration where he was projected to earn $4.7MM.
With the Mets, Flores moved around the diamond often, though the last few years he settled in more consistently at first.