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Yoenis Cespedes Pig, In Hog Heaven

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Wednesday, March 2, 2016
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Yoenis Cespedes is now the proud owner of a $7,000 grand champion pig - Until recently, the baseball player most associated with a hog was Kelly Leak. But that all changed over the weekend, when Yoenis Cespedes purchased a $7,000 pig.

Hey, at least it wasn’t another tricked-out car, right? And actually, that was no ordinary pig the New York Mets outfielder bought, but a grand champion hog.

According to ESPN’s Adam Rubin, Cespedes was among several members of the team who attended the St. Lucie (Fla.) County fair over the weekend. The event, held near the Mets’ spring-training facility, featured a hog competition, and the Cuban star was so taken by it that, having been to the fair on Saturday, he returned on Sunday.
That’s when he won “a bidding war” for the prize-winning pig, according to a Mets spokesman. From Rubin’s account:

Sandy Croghan of Port St. Lucie, Florida, said her 14-year-old grandson Cole Pallas raised the hog, which won its 270-pound weight class, then prevailed over 25 to 30 other champion hogs of assorted weights. …

“[Cespedes] asked one of the people at the rodeo, ‘Well, what would you buy?'” Croghan said. “[A bystander] said, ‘The best one is the grand champion.’ So he said, ‘That’s the one I want.'”

Cespedes, of course, can easily afford that kind of impulse buy, given that he signed a three-year, $75 million contract in the offseason. The deal will pay the 30-year-old $27.5 million this year, at which point he can exercise an opt-out clause and stick his snout back into the free agent trough in 2017, if he so desires.

Also, the proceeds of the hog purchase went to benefit the 4-H club, so Cespedes was really performing a charitable act. As for what he’ll do with the pig, well, let’s just say that a snippet from a 2011 video featuring the outfielder is ominous, to say the least.



Just in case you haven’t been keeping up with the tricked-out-cars story, that’s the one that has some folks worried about Cespedes eventually winding up as yet another shockingly broke athlete. For the first week of Mets spring training, he showed up in a different vehicle, each as gaudy as the last.
Hey, Cespedes is bringing home a ton of bacon, so who can blame him for using some of his wealth to pork, er perk things up in sleepy Port St. Lucie? After all, spring training can be a real boar.

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