His 13th season would see Ivan Rodriguez join the Marlins for the 2003 campaign. A 10-time all-star during his first stint with the Texas Rangers, Rodriguez’ season with the Marlins was his first non-Rangers major league season.
Rodriguez, who is turning 48-years-old today, signed with the Fish through free agency on January 28th, and in 144 regular season games for the Marlins, Pudge hit .297/.369/.474, with a career-high 55 walks, and a career second-best 10 steals. He clubbed 16 round-trippers with 85 RBI.
Although Rodriguez was only two years removed from six straight seasons of throwing out over half of base stealers, he only managed to cut down 33 percent of them with Florida.