SAN DIEGO -- Padres fans are well versed in the team's memorable run to the 1998 National League pennant - a run that featured a handful of the greatest moments in franchise history.
That club -- which is being honored for its 20th anniversary this weekend at Petco Park -- wasn't built in a day. And closer Trevor Hoffman, who will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame this July, made a point to remind the current fanbase as much.
"That '98 team started its rebuild, we'll say, in '93 or so, so that's five years," Hoffman said.