Pedro Alvarez took his last at-bat with the Pirates more than two years ago. If that’s when you ceased to care about the ins and outs of his career, it’d be tough to blame you.
We all have short memories, and they’re getting shorter. No sense in cluttering them with minutia. If Alvarez were a normal player with a normal career arc, and a normal ex-Pirate, forgetting him in the winter of 2015 would’ve made sense.
Alvarez doesn’t fit into any of those categories, though. He was always more interesting than the average player — No. 2 picks who can hit baseballs that far tend to be.