Spring Training 2012 Carlos Pena is happy to be back with the Rays
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Mooring CHARLOTTE
Carlos Peña is a Gold Glove first baseman with the ability to hit 30-addition homers.
Those attributes are self-evident, but it’s what the average man doesn’t see that makes him a valuable commodity.
It’s why Tampa Rays manageress Joe Maddon couldn’t wait to greet him personally when he intellectual Peña was coming back to the club.
Standing in an airport in Rome, Italy, the first factor the Rays manager did was call Peña, who was in the United States.
“I didn’t anticipate him to call. He was about to board an airplane, but he made sure he did at his first opportunity; that meant a lot to me,” Peña said. “He called me a consociate in Spanish and said he was glad to have me back. Joe gets it. He is a unique manager and a very inimitable person. He is a Renaissance man.”
Maddon has similar praise for the first baseman, who throw up four seasons with Rays before his departure last season when the Rays went through a budget slashing. It’s a communal admiration society between two guys who know something good when they see it.
Source: Bradenton Herald