The last time Visalia won the California League, Gerald Ford was President. The oldest man on the Diamondbacks’ current 40-man roster, Zack Greinke, would not be born for more than another five years. Since that championship in 1978, the Rawhide have reached the two-round post-season ten times, but have always come up short. Hopes were high this year, as they swept Bakersfield in the first round, but back-to-back one-run losses to High Desert, opening the championship series, proved too much to overcome, and Visalia were swept in their turn.
Before we get to that, let’s look and see how the Rawhide’s 2015 stars got on this season.