Three years ago, Nathan Lukes was ready to walk away from baseball.
Drafted in the seventh round by the Cleveland Guardians in 2015, Lukes had bounced around both the Cleveland and the Tampa Bay Rays farm systems for years, waiting for a shot at the majors. But after waiting for the call to the show Lukes, now married with a young daughter, was ready to make a different call at the end of the 2022 season.
“It had always gone through my mind when I hadn’t debuted [in MLB] yet — I told my wife in my first year of free agency [2022], ‘Let’s do this year, see where it leads,
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