Something was happening in Tampa Bay.
It wasn’t winning, that just felt like a pipe dream that would never come to fruition. No, it was a change in the team’s presence.
To be sure, they lost 99 games in 2003 and if not for the Detroit Tigers being historically awful, they would have had the worst record in all of baseball...it just didn’t feel like it.
The team had Julio Lugo, Carl Crawford, Rocco Baldelli, and Aubrey Huff on the offensive side of things. Here was the young core that could help guide the team over the .