What do MLB players do in the down time of spring training? Well, apparently if they are Yoenis Cespedes, they go to the local fair and buy a hog. Cespedes attended the St. Lucie County Fair over the weekend and didn't come away empty handed.
According to one Twitter user, Cespedes bought one of the winning hogs.
@AdamRubinESPN Yes I was at SLC Fair and he purchased my grandsons Grand Champion hog. Great guy and lovely family. pic.twitter.com/tbWDZZaxLV
— Sandy Croghan (@sandy20110) February 29, 2016
That is certainly one way to spend a weekend.
Now the question is what will Cespedes do with the hog? He garnered a lot of attention last week when he drove a multitude of very expensive cars to practice. He could one-up his own reputation and come to the ballpark riding a giant hog. That probably isn't physically possible, but it would be an unbeatable entrance.
The more likely option also appears to be the easiest: Eat it.
Long before MLB fans knew Cespedes as the home run mashing outfielder with a cannon for an arm, they knew him as the player who created a marketing video to sell himself to MLB teams. And of course that video famously included Cespedes roasting a pig.
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Maybe Cespedes' new hog will have a different fate. Or maybe Cespedes is planning to throw the best team barbecue in spring training history.
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