After hitting his ninth home run of the year a few hours earlier, Wily Mo Pena insisted there was nothing special behind his hot start to the year.
He didn’t discover any new techniques, have any game-changing epiphanies or anything of the sort. No, the major difference between this year and the last is that for the first time in a long time, Pena simply feels good, and that has translated into production at the plate.
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