By Anthony McCarron | Feb 11 | 12:30PM
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Frank Viola has vivid memories of what he calls "the get-together in Homestead" back in 1995. It was his chance to show teams that he was healthy coming back from Tommy John surgery.
"I was hanging on," recalls Viola, the former Mets star who was a 35-year-old free agent at the time. "Do I keep going? Coming off Tommy John, you don't want that to end your career. I wanted to prove to myself that I still had what it takes.