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You’re excused if, like most fans of the KC Royals, you had no idea who Domingo Tapia was when the club picked him up from the Seattle Mariners in May. That he’d appeared in only seven major league games in two seasons made him anything but a household name.
His obscurity didn’t stop the Royals from sending cash considerations, the quid-pro-quo typically associated with little-known players, to the Mariners for him. Nor did the fact Seattle was casting him away—they’d DFA’d him five days before Kansas City acquired him.