The increasingly compelling case for starting the otherworldly Yasiel Puig with the Dodgers: http://yhoo.it/11pMpVT Expand Reply Retweet Favorite Buffer More True story: Legend of Yasiel Puig could only grow if phenom joins... Cuban prospect Yasiel Puig deserves a roster spot with the Dodgers after Hanley Ramirez's injury. Yasiel Puig has hit .521 in spring training for the Dodgers Yahoo! Sports @YahooSports · Follow GLENDALE, Ariz. – The Legend of Yasiel Puig is greater than The Truth of Yasiel Puig. The Legend plays like Bo Jackson. The Truth simply looks like Bo, a diesel 6-foot-3 and 245 pounds. The Legend hits .521 in spring training. The Truth understands spring-training statistics might as well be tabulated by Arthur Andersen. The Legend is an invincible athlete. The Truth lost three straight games of ping-pong Thursday to Hyun-Jin Ryu, who is the anti-athlete. The Legend and The Truth do meet in a most important place: Both agree Puig can be a dynamic player for the Los Angeles Dodgers right now. And with Hanley Ramirez down, Carl Crawford's return for the season opener iffy, the reigning world champions in their division and a payroll well over $215 million, it adds up to an easy choice. Yasiel Puig should start the season with the Dodgers. "I don't think anyone in here would cry if that happened," Dodgers reliever J.P. Howell said. "You see what he's done. It's ridiculous. It's something different. "It would be not a bad decision. At all." [Related: Dodgers' Hanley Ramirez to miss eight weeks with thumb injury | Fantasy spin] Certainly there are drawbacks to the idea of plopping a 22-year-old Cuban in his first full season of professional baseball in front of 50,000 people in a city that can eat alive a kid who signed a $42 million contract after spending his first two decades living in a totalitarian country where there's no...
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