Addison Reed has already been a D-back -- in Little League

Reed was traded from the White Sox to Arizona on Monday, and quickly revealed via Twitter that his association with the franchise goes back farther than anyone expected. To 1998, the franchise's inaugural season, that is, when a nine-year-old Reed was wearing the D-backs' old-school teal-and-purple as part of Vineyard Little League in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.:

I dont even need a jersey, already have one! #bangs #GQ pic.twitter.com/fVBsnr5xI2

- Addison reed (@Areed43) December 17, 2013

Now we just need him to grow back those #bangs, and he'll have truly come full circle.