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He was one of the biggest question marks of the off-season, and almost a year into his major league career, I still don't think you can say anything definitive about the player he's going to be moving forward. He's had two months of playing the way his biggest supporters envisioned and had two months of playing the way his biggest haters predicted. He's doing all of this while putting up some of the worst contact and best exit velos in baseball. He's so extreme with everything he does, from an evaluation standpoint, I think he's the most interesting player in the sport.

This question was inspired by this comment about Carlos Beltran, specifically "Beltran was a really good Met, but for better or worse his most famous moment here was the called third strike." It got me thinking about other all-time great players who's most famous moment was in failure.

Mike Trout was the first name that popped into my head. I think his strikeout vs Shohei to end the WBC is pretty clearly the most famous moment of his career.

Closers are good candidates for this, including the greatest closer of all-time. The two most famous moments of Mariano Rivera's career w

Throwing together a top 10:

1. Yordan Alvarez - August 1, 2016: Traded by the Los Angeles Dodgers to the Houston Astros for Josh Fields.

2. Pete Crow-Armstrong - July 30, 2021: Traded by the New York Mets to the Chicago Cubs for Javier Báez, Trevor Williams and cash

3. Cristopher Sanchez - November 20, 2019: Traded by the Tampa Bay Rays to the Philadelphia Phillies for Curtis Mead

4. Junior Caminero - November 19, 2021: Traded by the Cleveland Indians to the Tampa Bay Rays for Tobias Myers

5. James Wood - August 2, 2022: Traded by the San Diego Padres with Jarlin Susana, CJ Abrams, MacKenzie Gore, Robert Hassell III and Luke Voit to the Washington Nationals for Josh Bell and Juan Soto