Kind, unassuming, polite were just a few words to describe him. He hasn’t changed.
Santovenia was one of those prospect-type players the Expos discovered out of two post-high school institutions. He’s a trivia item of sorts: he may have been the only player drafted twice by the Expos. We don’t exactly know if this is true but it isn’t often a player is drafted twice by the same team.
Santovenia had first caught the eye of the Expos when he was a catcher at Miami-Dade College. So what did they do? They selected him in the third round of the 1981 draft but he didn’t sign.