ESPN says Manny Machado is the face of baseballs new identity

ESPN

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He is both star and symbol, a 24-year-old Dominican-American from Miami who straddles two cultures and resides in a third. The game is changing -- or, perhaps more accurately, being changed. Gradually and grudgingly, baseball's culture is dismissing the mores of its pastoral grandparents. The game's young stars, its Bryants and Lindors and Harpers and Arenados and even its overly inhibited Trout, bring a buoyancy to the game that is eroding the tsk-tsk repression that frowns upon public displays of happiness and inflates those who make playing the game look as difficult as possible.

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How can this dude write this paragraph and still think Manny Machado is the 'face' of the new wave?

ETA: not to mention he plays in a bottom tier baseball market and he's most well known for throwing temper tantrums on the field.