Javier Baez: 'I can turn a sure safe call into an out' -- Body 2017

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World Series winner? Check. NLCS MVP? Check. World Baseball Classic silver medalist? Check, check, check. After quite a year (when's the last time you won a title 108 years in the making?), Javier Baez decided to top it all off by posing for ESPN's ninth edition of the Body Issue. Reporter Marly Rivera talked to the 24-year-old Baez about his unique physical gifts, the art of tagging and how he's inspired by his Puerto Rican roots. Here's Baez, in his own words:

When I got to the World Series, I started to try to do more than I was capable of doing. I wanted to hit a homer off the first pitch. I…