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The Amazing Potential Return of Wily Mo Pena

Gone from Major League Baseball for the last six years, Wily Mo Pena is getting a chance with the Cleveland Indians.

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. If that's true, we're about to develop some serious fondness for Wily Mo Pena.

The Cleveland Indians have signed the slugging outfielder to a one-year deal that will be worth $700,000 if he makes the big club. And if he does, it would be the first time Pena has appeared in a big-league game stateside in five long years.

Pena last played in the MLB in 2011, when he totaled 120 plate appearances for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Seattle Mariners.