It was a really tough season for Nick Castellanos. No, it was more than that. It was brutal. And it all started so promising before it turned sour.
Star players didn’t live up to expectations.
There was turmoil on the team.
The coach was fired.
No, this wasn’t the Detroit Tigers’ season. It was the season for Castellanos’ beloved NFL team, his hometown Miami Dolphins.
“It was sad just because the past six years or so, 10 years or so, you go in and we never really expected much,” the third baseman said wistfully during a recent Tigers winter caravan stop in Lansing.