Daniel Nava has always been one of those gym rat type of guys that you just root for because of how hard they had to work to make it to the majors. The story is familiar to many Red Sox fans about how Nava took a job as an equipment manager for the Santa Clara University baseball team just to be close to the team in the chance he might get a shot to work in baseball as a career.
He grew three inches one offseason and made the Santa Clara team, hitting almost .