At the trade deadline in 2005, the struggling Mariners traded away Ron Villone—their first -round pick way back in 1992, enjoying a career resurgence with the Mariners as a LOOGY—to the Florida Marlins. In exchange, they received two righty relievers: Mike Flannery, who never made the bigs; and Yorman Bazardo, who was DFA’d the following off-season when the Mariners acquired Jeff Weaver, eventually ending up in Detroit in exchange for outfielder Jeff Frazier, Todd’s brother. And that’s today’s “Five Degrees of Todd Frazier,” thanks for playing.
Yorman, of course, is the much-older brother of Eduard Bazardo, who is also treading the creaky path of journeyman MLB reliever at the ripe old age of 28.