Eloy Jimenez once sprinted to right field to take his position before the game’s first pitch. Another time, in Class A, he hopped out of the batter’s box after launching one over the wall.
Remind you of anyone? A certain slugger who owned Chicago 20 years ago?
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“I just reacted,” Jimenez recalled of the time he hopped. “Not anymore. That was his thing.”
Sammy Sosa is actually part of why Jimenez signed for $2.8 million with the Cubs, passing up higher bonus offers from the Astros and Rangers.