About this series: I pick a D-Back randomly and write a story about him or her. Or maybe I don’t really pick them that randomly. But the idea is you will read about people you might not even remember. But you could know them because there is something remarkable about their time with, before or after the D-Backs.
He is Canadian
Just 1.15% of all players that have played in the MLB, according to data from Baseball Reference, hail from Canada. There aren’t too many famous baseball players that come from Canada and even less from London, Ontario, unless you believe George Gibson and Paul Quantrill to be stars.