ST. PETERSBURG -- When Kevin Cash, who'd never managed a baseball team at any level, was hired as skipper for the Tampa Bay Rays last December, the feeling was he'd have to grow into the job. It would take a season, maybe even more.
Cash has proven everyone who had that thought wrong. MLB's youngest manager grew up in a hurry.
In fact, when the injury-riddled Rays were atop the American League East, 10 games over .500 in June, there were those of us who thought he might end up winning the league's Manager of the Year Award .