With backup catcher Connor Wong battling a hand injury for most of the season — an injury that required surgery in October — the Boston Red Sox in July signed veteran backstop Chadwick Tromp to a minor league deal and assigned him to Triple-A Worcester.

But Tromp, one of only two natives of the Caribbean island of Aruba currently in professional baseball, never saw Fenway Park. As a result, on Nov. 6, the 30-year-old elected to become a free agent for the third time this year.

Just three days later, the Atlanta Braves signed Tromp, who originally signed with the Cincinnati Reds in 2013 as an international amateur free agent at the age of 18, to a minor league contract. They immediately assigned Tromp to the Triple-A Gwinnett Stripers.

Then, on Monday, the Braves sent their new catch

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