Usually, when a team has a magical season, it gets good performances from at least a few players whom no one was expecting to do much. The 2003 Chicago Cubs, who came within one win of the World Series, had several of those players. Yet one of those players that stands out to me after all these years is closer Joe Borowski.
Between 1995 and 1998, the right-handed Borowski bounced around from the Baltimore Orioles, Atlanta Braves, and New York Yankees. He resurfaced in 2001 with the Cubs and made one disastrous start – six runs in 1 2/3 innings – against the San Francisco Giants on August 11.