Randy Arozarena’s brief career in the Cardinals system has been something of a roller coaster. I’ll let our own A.E. Schafer set the table, in his write-up about him last year, for the early part of Arozarena’s career:
Randy Arozarena defected from Cuba at the end of 2014. Due to difficulties establishing residency and going through all the other steps required of Cuban defectors at the time in order to be able to sign with an MLB club, Arozarena sat out all of 2015. He played a short stint in the Mexican League in 2016, signed with the Cardinals late in the year, and was then pushed straight to Palm Beach to begin 2017, his first season playing in the United States.