George Kontos occupied the space between useful and forgettable, which for a baseball reliever actually makes him successful. Most of the time, a relief pitcher is either a Mariano Rivera or the scapegoat for a city’s inability to channel its collective misery into something other than the local sports teams.
We’ll always remember him as that guy who came over from the Yankees for Chris Stewart in 2012, which was great because Chris Stewart was painful to watch while Buster Posey was out in 2011.