Cecil Espy

Cecil Edward Espy (born October 20, 1963) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Texas Rangers, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Cincinnati Reds in 1983 and 1987–1993.

Career Espy was a first-round pick of the Chicago White Sox in the 1980 Major League Baseball draft, the eighth player chosen, ahead of such other first-round picks as Kelly Gruber (10th overall), Terry Francona (22nd overall) and Billy Beane (23rd overall). He was traded in the spring of 1982 along with Bert Geiger to the Los Angeles Dodgers for outfielder Rudy Law.

Making his big-league debut at age 20 on September 2, 1983, with the Dodgers as a late-season call-up, Espy appeared in 11 games. He then had to wait until 1987 to return to the majors.

On August 31, 1985, the Pittsburgh Pirates traded disgruntled veteran infielder Bill Madlock to the Los Angeles Dodgers for three player(s)-to-be-named-later. The first PTBNL was Utility man R.J. Reynolds, who was sent from LA to Pittsburgh on September 3. Nearly a week later on September 9th, Espy was sent to Pittsburgh alongside Sid Bream as the last two PTBNL's.

Before Espy got a chance to play in the Major Leagues with Pittsburgh, he was selected by the Texas Rangers in the 1986 Rule 5 Draft. Pittsburgh placed him on unconditional release waivers after the 1992 season, where he was claimed by the Cincinnati Reds.

He played in 40 games before being released by the Reds in 1993.