Throwback Thursday: 2005

Here's another keeper from a Spring Training trip. It's 2005, the Dodgers are fresh off their first NL West title in nine years and the Holman Stadium program celebrates the achievement.

Inside, there's a paper insert with rosters for both teams on the field this day: the Dogers and the Marlins. Scroll down this roster, and see how many current major leaguers you can find. Keep in mind, we're 13 years later... that 22 year old rookie is now 35 -- if he's even still active!

Who have you found that might see action in 2018? There's two: Jayson Werth, still an unsigned free agent, was a spare outfielder on the Dodgers. His career would take off two years later, after joining the Phillies. The Marlins' Miguel Cabrera, not yet 22, was already a star and over the next 13 seasons in Florida and Detroit, would make the case that he's a future Hall of Famer.
But as time moves on, much more has changed. Both teams have been sold -- the Dodgers have moved on from the troubled tenure of Frank McCourt to Guggenheim Partners, while the Marlins rebranded from Florida to Miami under Jeffrey Loria, who got the government to foot the bill for a new stadium, before selling the team to the Bruce Sherman-Derek Jeter group last year.
And the Dodgers would end their six-decade tenure in Vero Beach just a few years later, when they moved their spring training to Camelback Ranch near Phoenix.

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