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The Dodgers’ 12th-round draft pick, New Mexico outfielder Brian Cavazos-Galvez, is the son of former Dodgers reliever Balvino Galvez, whose major league career lasted only 10 games in 1986. Balvino apparently still had himself quite a career.

Let’s go to the video. Balvino, pitching for the Yomiuri Giants in 1998, exchanges words with an umpire after being removed from the game and is being calmed down by teammate Mariano Duncan. It doesn’t work. Instead of handing the ball to his manager, Balvino fires the ball full force at the umpire. An entire team is then needed to restrain Balvino, who injures a teammate in the process. He is suspended for the rest of the season.

By the end of his career, Balvino had pitched for at least seven major league orgaizations and also in Japan, Taiwan and Korea. He was last seen in Pirates spring training in 2001, on the verge of making the team at age 38 after battling Joe Beimel for an opening day roster spot. Then, he mysteriously walked away.

Sadly, Brian grew up around the clubhouse, but hasn’t spoken with his father since he was young when Balvino left for Asia. Born the year after Balvino pitched in LA, Brian now might one day don Dodger blue as well and have his own stories to tell.

“I still remember hanging out at the stadium in the locker room,” Brian told the Albuquerque Tribune last year. “I was about 5 years old at the time.

“I remember thinking ‘This is my dad’s workplace.’ Who wouldn’t want to have a job like that?”