Worst in baseball to World Series winner.

The Tampa Bay Rays can become the first team in the majors to complete the ultimate fast turnaround. Doormats no more, they’ll have the swagger of a pennant-winner when they play the Philadelphia Phillies starting Wednesday night.

“By the time we got to the point where we had won our league, our guys knew we had a good team,” said Atlanta Braves president John Schuerholz, remembering back to when his team fell just short of a worst-to-winner transformation, losing Game 7 to Minnesota 1-0 in 10 innings back in 1991.

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