Nowadays, the name Aubrey Huff doesn’t conjure too many warm feelings among baseball fans. His use of social media has made him a pariah, with the San Francisco Giants excluding him from their reunion of their 2010 championship team thanks to several inflammatory tweets. Long before that, he was briefly (and somewhat regrettably) a member of the Houston Astros.
Huff broke into the majors with Tampa Bay in 2003, alternating between playing the corner infield and outfield positions. He broke out with a .313 average in 2005 and was a centerpiece of the Devil Rays’ lineup for the next few seasons.