Old heads (and Getty photo archives) will remember the Connor Joe Era of Cincinnati Reds history. Back in December of 2018, the Reds selected Joe in the Rule 5 Draft, plucking him from the Los Angeles Dodgers organization and bringing him in to camp in Goodyear in search of a big league job.
That didn’t pan out, unfortunately. The Reds traded his rights to the San Francisco Giants prior to the start of the 2019 season, and Joe has since cycled through the depths of the Dodgers, Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and San Diego Padres organizations. In that time, he’s played corner outfield and 1B, and made a decent effort at being the lefty-mashing portion of platoons in the process.