Happy Cinco de Mayo.
He’s an old-school baseball player. He’s good at the game. It’s not anything special, nothing magic. He’s just good.
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| — | Evan Gattis on Tim Hudson’s 200th career win. |
Scouting reports of Derek Jeter, Ernie Banks and Juan Marichal.
“You get excited just watching him warm-up” sounds eerily like a line straight from Moneyball.
Also worth noting that Juan Marichal was from the Dominican Republic. He wasn’t “Cuban or Puerto Rican.”
I walked into a restaurant and I got a standing ovation. I’m telling you, people stopped eating dinner and were like, ‘Yeah!’ My Twitter account went up like 50,000 people. It had happened to me once when we won the World Series the first time. But this was different. This was like I was a politician and I just won the whole thing.
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| — | David Ortiz after his well-publicized speech on Saturday. |
This is the twitter avatar for Evan Gattis (@BulldogBeing). It’s his ID from when he was working as a janitor.
Gattis is batting .391 with a 1.266 OPS, 3 HR, 6 RBI.
(h/t @Buster_ESPN)
