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NPR at home with Yasiel Puig

puig-firsthomers-dodgers.jpgOn "Morning Edition" today, Shereen Marisol Meraji introduced the NPR audience to the phenomenon of 22-year-old Dodger Yasiel Puig. She went to his furnished corporate apartment in downtown, interviewed him about Cuba without getting very much from the reticent defector, and says that he mostly plays on his Play Station when he's not at Dodger Stadium or on the road. "He seems less like a wild horse and more like a typical 22 year old guy," she concludes. Listen


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