Junior Caminero wanted to play his whole MLB career with the Cleveland Guardians
This would've been quite the change of outcomes.
Junior Caminero wanted to play his whole MLB career with the Cleveland Guardians originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Junior Caminero is in Cleveland this week, starring for the Tampa Bay Rays against the Cleveland Guardians .
But once upon a time, he wanted to spend his whole MLB career at Progressive Field playing for Cleveland. Yep, the Guardians once traded Caminero away. That's not a moment that has aged well.
The Guardians signed Caminero as a teenager out of the Dominican Republic in 2019. After the COVID year altered prospect development, Caminero starred in the Dominican Summer League in 2021 with a . 534 slugging percentage.
The Guardians apparently didn't see enough out of him there. They traded him away before giving him any more shots to shine in the Cleveland organization. In November 2021, Cleveland traded Caminero to the Tampa Bay Rays for Tobias Myers.