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‘That’s me being me’: Javy Baez talks about just being himself

MESA, Ariz. -- Javy being Javy is shaving your head into a mohawk and dying your hair blonde because you want to go incognito.

“I was trying to be a little different, so people don’t recognize me,” colorful Cubs infielder Javier Baez said one morning at Sloan Park. “It didn’t really work.”

Javy being Javy is spending the day after the World Series with your tattoo artist getting a World Series trophy inked on your shoulder because, well, why wait?

Baez, who famously has an MLB logo tattooed on the back of his neck, showed off the tattoo, which he recently had finished, to reporters and like anything Cubs-related these days, it.