St. Petersburg, Fla. — Francisco Mejia, the Tampa Bay Rays catcher, said what Isaac Paredes wouldn’t. Heck yes he enjoyed hitting a couple of long home runs against his former team.
“All baseball players ever want to do is get back against the team that just gave them away,” Mejia said.
Paredes, whom the Tigers traded to Tampa for Austin Meadows, hit a 411-foot homer to left field off Rony Garcia and a 404-footer to left-center off Wily Peralta, helping the Rays beat the Tigers, 6-1, in the finale Wednesday.
The two homers match his total in 57 games with the Tigers.