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Talking Chop · Jan 28, 2020

Welcome to the Twilight Ozuna

Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty ImagesBaseball players are, and have generally always been, weird. Not all of them, and perhaps not even many of them — like the humans that constitute generally every profession, most baseball players fall within the meaty part of the personality bell curve. But, there are always the characters. Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter while on LSD. Carl Everett had a well-known feud with the existence of dinosaurs. Zack Greinke lets a 30-cent increase in the price of Chipotle’s guacamole influence his fast food decision-making process. I’m sure you know all about Bill Lee and Manny Ramirez, and if you don’t, well, go rectify that. Hunter Pence exists. You get the idea. Running the gamut from eccentric (Mark Fidrych) to wacky (Turk Wendell), there hasn’t been any shortage of weirdness in baseball.

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