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Yasiel Puig can now add #PuigYourCoach to his ever-expanding hashtag collection

(Nick Wass)

During the Rio Olympics, Yasiel Puig took to his Twitter account to show just how intensely he was rooting on Puerto Rico's Monica Puig, the first athlete ever from there to take home a gold medal and, coincidentally, the girlfriend of his Triple-A OKC Dodgers teammate, right-hander Jose De Leon. 
On Sunday, word trickled out that Puig was spending some time as OKC's first-base coach in its 6-1 win over Colorado Springs:

It was quickly proven to be more than just a rumor ...

After this latest feat, Puig can now add "first-base coach" to his already accomplished resume of extracurricular activities, which include animal cracker collector, top-notch fisherman and, of course, owner of a particularly dangerous throwing arm in the outfield. 

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