Seattle Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto has signed and acquired so many players in the past three years that you can be forgiven if a late-August trade for 32-year-old utility player Kristopher Negron went unnoticed.
Not even the team manager knew much about him.
“I know we can use him at a number of different positions,” Scott Servais said at the time, which was about the extent of his Negron knowledge.
“The people in the front office thought he would be a fit here, but we’ll take a look. We’ll play him in the outfield and infield and we’ll get him plenty of looks.