CLEARWATER, Fla. – Who knows the secret? Who knows the secret to unlocking the mystery that is Hector Olivera?
Defected from Cuba in September of 2014. Signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers last May for $62 million. Then traded away abruptly last July to the Atlanta Braves.
Traded away after just 19 minor-league games. Traded away in a complicated three-team deal that required the Dodgers, essentially, to eat nearly half of Olivera’s contract and left the Braves on the hook for only about $33 million of it.