Remember Yandy Díaz’s blink-and-you'll-miss-it major league tenure with the Guardians?
After signing with Cleveland for $300,000 in 2014, Díaz made his long-awaited MLB debut at the start of the 2017 season after an injury to Jason Kipnis opened up a spot on the roster for him.
That set up a two-year period where Díaz played sparingly for Cleveland (88 games across 2017 and ‘18) because he was stuck behind José Ramírez at third base and Edwin Encarnación at first base.
The Guardians then elected to sell high on Díaz’s potential by sending him to the Rays ahead of the 2019 season in a three-team deal that sent Encarnación to the Mariners and got Cleveland Carlos Santana and Jake Bauers.