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Cecil Fielder began his big league career 36 years ago in 1985. He came up and almost immediately started hitting huge dingers -- knocking out a league-leading 51 in 1990. This one cleared the roof.
Fielder had a son, Prince, who routinely took BP with the Tigers as a kid and was reaching the upper deck at Tiger Stadium as a 12-year-old. The future looked bright, and it ended up being very bright for Prince: he hit 319 homers in a 12-year, injury-shortened career that began in 2005 -- 20 years after Cecil's debut. Most of them were moonshots, just like his dad.
And now, in 2021, there's a third-generation Fielder hitting homers.
16-year-old Jadyn, son of Prince, hit a monster shot in a video filmed by his dad on Friday. It was an upper-cut swing reminiscent of Prince and it included a bat flip along with one of the slowest trots you'll see (you can hear Prince say "he's got a slow trot too"). We clocked the trip around the bases at 29 seconds. It's not quite Juan Francisco territory, but he's young. It can only get better.