“It seems like they get a little bit nervous right there when I go out there,” De La Cruz, who has a major league-leading 37 steals, said through a translator.
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“Just to tell everybody that the knob is not the reason why I am doing a good job,” De La Cruz said of the meaning behind the gesture.
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