TAMPA — The game kept giving Fernando Cruz chances to walk away from it.
There were the two times he was released, the eight seasons he spent out of affiliated baseball altogether and the first 14 years of his career that came and went without making the big leagues.
There were the days that instead of calling himself a major leaguer, he was a New Jersey Jackal in the independent Can-Am League for parts of three seasons; a Navegante de Aguada and Macatero de Vega Alta in Puerto Rico’s local Doble A league for parts of seven seasons; a Mariachi de Guadalajara in the Mexican League, and a member of winter leagues in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Mexico.
There was the lowest moment of his career that went viral.
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