It’s uncommon for players as good as Jorge Polanco to be overshadowed. No, the 2019 All-Star is hardly an unknown, but there has scarcely in Polanco’s baseball-playing career been a moment where stood in the spotlight. Now, arriving as the centerpiece that in all likelihood caps a whirlwind offseason for the Seattle Mariners, Polanco will have a chance at his days in the sun.
Signed in 2009 by the Minnesota Twins out of San Pedro De Macoris, one of the beating hearts of baseball talent in the world, Polanco was already used to being the second name listed.