Later on Wednesday, catcher Mike Piazza might be get the ultimate call, and if the National Baseball Hall of Fame does in fact bring the good news it will mark the second straight year Cooperstown will induct a Dodgers player that got away.
But unlike Pedro Martinez, the 2015 inductee who was traded away after just one season in the bullpen in Los Angeles, Piazza made his bones as a Dodger even in his relatively short tenure with the franchise.
Piazza was a force of nature at the plate, a hitting savant whose swing was honed in his backyard batting cage in Pennsylvania.