Veteran reliever Kirby Yates signs $13 million, one-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Yates, 37, boasts impressive career stats with a 3.17 ERA and 95 saves in 422 relief appearances.

There’s no Nintendo character that’s more at ease snoozin’ than Kirby. Setting aside that it’s canonically one of his abilities, so many pieces of merchandise have portrayed the pink ...