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Yoenis Céspedes and the Wild Boar

Yoenis Céspedes first breached the public consciousness with an amazing hype video that concluded with footage of the Céspedes family at a pig roast. It took nearly a decade, but the pigs got their revenge.

Céspedes became a fan favorite in New York after the Tigers traded him to the Mets at the 2015 trade deadline. He went wild in Queens, batting .287 with 17 home runs and 44 RBIs in just 57 games with the club, helping them to the World Series. He re-signed in New York and had a good 2016 season, but then the injuries struck. He missed half of 2017, then most off 2018, and in 2019 the team announced Céspedes had suffered a severe leg injury in a violent fall on his ranch in Florida. It was widely assumed he fell off a horse, but then the details emerged:

"The Post has learned all involved parties agreed that Cespedes was injured on the ranch stepping into a hole after an interaction with a wild boar."

Welp.