From a Wall Street Journal story by Jared Diamond headlined “The 38-Year-Old Anchoring Baseball’s Most Unlikely Playoff Success Story”:

Evan Longoria strongly considered retirement at the end of last season. The $100 million deal he signed way back in the autumn of 2012 had finally expired. Fifteen seasons with the Tampa Bay Rays and San Francisco Giants had left him with an impressive résumé of achievements that lacked the thing he wanted most: a World Series title.