Coghlan’s rise got its start on the Cape

To this day, Chris Coghlan and Evan Longoria still laugh about it.

As teammates in the Cape Cod League in summer 2005, Coghlan was primarily used at third base while batting cleanup. Longoria, meanwhile, played mostly second base and hit third.

“It’s funny because he hit third and I hit fourth,” said Coghlan, now a rookie left fielder for the Marlins. “Each time we’d run into each other back home, he lives in Tampa now, too, there is always that memory. We’d joke about it because, I mean, he’s got more power than I do.”

Back then, both players were striving to make names for themselves at the Cape Cod League, the premier wood-bat summer league for college players.

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