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Ellie Delacruz Is a Great Baseball Player
Ellie Delacruz is having genuine fun out there this kid is off the chains enthusiastic exactly what the sport always needs. He loves baseball I was talking to one of the um a veteran in Louisville and basically you know you guys have all been there with Ellie it's genuine he's like he is at the top step screaming for his teammates if he's over four or four punches if he's had homers from each side of the plate same guy. You see it on those games you watch him everybody smiles around him because either in all and you don't hear top level athletes like this talk about other athletes the way they talk about Ellie Delacruez it's like they aren't intimidated
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