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Michael Lorenzen's home run power has his Reds teammates in shock

By Jordan Shusterman

Reds right-hander Michael Lorenzen had a remarkable week at the plate, rejuvenating the #PitchersWhoRake movement with three home runs in three different games as a reliever: 

We shouldn't be too surprised to see Lorenzen have success in the batter's box -- he was a two-way player in college at Cal State Fullerton and has always shown relative proficiency with the bat in his hands as a big leaguer, with an .840 OPS in 66 career plate appearances. But his last week of long balls has got his Reds teammates in awe of his Ohtani-esque performance: 

Here are some other highlights from baseballers on social media over the last week ...
There was an unsurprisingly large number of reactions to the news of LeBron James heading to the Los Angeles Lakers:

Pirates right-hander Joe Musgrove returned to his native San Diego and threw seven shutout innings against the Padres. He acknowledged that some of his fans in San Diego may be a bit conflicted:

Cardinals rookie fireballer Jordan Hickstouched 104 mph against the D-backs on Wednesday. Hicks' teammate Austin Gomber revealed it isn't too much fun playing catch with him:

Brandon McCarthy, meanwhile, is not sure how to feel about guys like Hicks throwing that hard:

His teammate Peter Moylan agreed:

McCarthy's wife did kindly remind him that he used to throw that hard, too ... by some measures:

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