Former Yankees: Juan Miranda

Juan Miranda defected from Cuba to the Dominican Republic in 2004 and signed with the Yankees at the end of 2006. Miranda was a September call up in both 08 and 09 and got his first decent stint in the majors last year when he had 71 PA over 33 games. His defense was average with the Yankees which is likely why he only started 4 games at first base for the Bombers in 2010 and only 8 in total. In his short playing time with the Yankees he had two walk offs, one in 2009 against Kyle Farnsworth with the Royals which you can see here, which was also the last home win of the 2009 season and he also had the very memorable literal walk off against Hideki Okajima and the Red Sox.

At the end of 2010 Miranda was out of options and had no chance of making the club as the Yankees have Mark Teixeira at 1st. As a result Miranda was traded to the Diamondbacks for Scott Allen who has been atrocious with a 9+ ERA however his last start was good with 5 innings of 1 hit baseball. He is very young, but the Yankees really weren't expecting to get anything substantial out of the trade as they might have gotten nothing if they had to place him on waivers to send him back to AAA. Plus the Yankees wanted to move up Jorge Vazquez.
Miranda made the Diamonbacks team as part of a 3 man platoon with Xavier Nady and Russell Branyan. Branyan has since been released and Miranda has been good enough that the Diamond backs will likely make him the full time first baseman when he is 100% after taking a pitch off his hand. D-Backs top prospect Brandon Allen is waiting patiently in AAA and I don't know if he is viewed as trade bait or the future at 1st by the club. Juan Miranda hopes to solidify himself at 1st especially with the NL West having just been blown wide open with De La Rosa and Posey being injured. Miranda is hitting getting on base and slugging, best of luck to you as a snakehead.