When I think back to all of the baseball that I watched as a kid I can't really remember Mario Guerrero. Do I only remember him from his Topps and Kellogg's cards?
From 1973-1980 he had seven homers, eight stolen bases and eight intentional walks. How did he get eight intentional walks, seven of them when he played in the AL?
BaseballReference.com likes to list similar players. They come up with a bunch of names that are not very well known either.
All of this adds up to no one really knew him well. He seemed to be the ultimate player to be named later. Twice he was traded as the player to be named later to complete an earlier trade.
His anonymity continued as twice he was actually traded for a player to be named later. Those players named later - Ed Kurpiel and Jim Willoughby. Kurpiel didn't even make it to the big leagues.
At least he was never one of the players traded for themselves
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