The year is 2014. Transformers: Age of Extinction broke records at the box office. You can’t walk a city block without little girls, women, and grown men singing “Let it Go”. A deadly Ebola outbreak began spreading in West Africa, causing concern and anxiety about a global pandemic. Joffrey Baratheon finally got his comeuppance. Cries of “Black Lives Matter” echo in the streets of St. Louis and New York as the murders of Michael Brown and Eric Garner go unpunished. Wilfred Tovar is a top prospect in the Mets minor league system.
Signed as an international free agent on October 12, 2007 out of Miranda, Venezuela, Tovar made his professional debut in the now-defunct Venezuelan Summer League and quickly established himself as a glove-first, light-hitting shortstop.