It’s been just under a full calendar year since right-handed pitching David McKay was sent from the Kansas City Royals organization, along with a trio of other minor league arms, for what Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times has indicated was literally one dollar.
At the time, McKay had done little to instill hope in the Royals’ front office that he had much of a future in the game, struggling through two seasons (19 starts) at rookie ball before receiving a short and ultimately unimpressive run as a reliever in A-ball. Fast-forward to this spring, and you’d be shocked to learn that the guy consistently throwing up zeros in Cactus League games for the Mariners against the likes of Ryan Cordell, Leury Garcia, Rob Refsnyder, and Ryan Flaherty joined the Mariners for less than the cost of a load of laundry.