Let’s be honest, not many of us knew much about Luis Avilan. After seven seasons in the big leagues with four different teams, you might think the name would be a little more familiar. The New York Mets reliever, while owning a name we sort of recognized when they inked him to a minor league deal, didn’t exactly stand out for many of us.
Despite three and a half years with the Atlanta Braves, a presence on the 2016 and 2017 Los Angeles Dodgers teams, and wrapping things up with the Philadelphia Phillies in 2018, he was just a name.