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3. Right fielder for the SF Giants who runs like a wounded stork

Hunter Pence, who won his second World Series in three years with the Giants, is one of the quirkiest and most charismatic All-Stars in baseball, playing with an unself-conscious blend of bug-eyed intensity and unrestrained desire. This year the public persona of the 31-year-old right fielder grew exponentially with his play on the field, his motivational speeches and the appearance -- in ballparks from coast to coast -- of an inexplicable phenomenon: Hunter Pence signs

Early scouting report:

Runs like a rotary phone thrown into a running clothes dryer. Throws like an effete Frenchman throwing a bookcase uphill. Swings a bat like his elbows are stapled to his knees and his underwear is pulled over his head. Stares at you while you aren’t looking.

But there's is a reason why he moves like he was kludged together out of spare parts and might fail at any moment: Has Scheuermann's disease, a spinal disorder that left him with no flexibility in his thoracic spine.

And this also explains his totally unorthodox gangly alien/stork-like style of playing. By all measures, he shouldn't even be playing MLB, but he has the biggest heart in baseball, bar none, and worked hard to develop mechanics that work well for him despite being just plain ugly to watch, and Hunter has a lot of fun with it: