Slim pickins looking for former NLC players on the Tampa Bay team. They’re apparently too cheap to buy anyone else’s cast-off.

There are a few, though:

Cliff Floyd

Did this guy think he was moving up? Last year he was with the Cubs, the team that ended this season with the best record in the league. This year he was on the team that was giving away opening day tickets for free at one spring training game I went to a couple years ago. Yet, the Ray managed to throw off their curse by ditching the “Devil.” The Cubs could learn a thing or two.

Gabe Gross

Another guy who left a fairly strong team behind, the Brewers. His cross-country move improved not only the weather in his baseball town, but also his chances of getting a ring.

Grant Balfour

You may not think that Balfour was ever a member of the Reds, but you’d be forgetting when he was signed by Dan O’Brien in January of 2006. It was one of O’Brien’s last moves as GM, along with signing catcher Ryan Hannigan. One of these moves worked out better than the other, as Balfour somehow found himself on the Brewers before he ever tossed a pitch for the Reds. He pitched a whole 2.2 innings for the Brew Crew before being DFA’d and traded to Tampa Bay.