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Joey Wendle is the Face Of MLB

Christian Petersen/Getty Images

Buster Posey may have won the annoying "#FaceOfMLB" contest on Twitter, but while looking through thousands of photos in the SB Nation photo bank yesterday, yours truly has discovered that an Athletics non-roster invitee is the actual Face of MLB. Don't believe me? Take a look at photographer Christian Petersen's photo of infielder Joey Wendle from Saturday:

joey wendel is the face of mlb

Click to enlarge naturally without surgery or drugs! - Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images

The resemblance is eerie--or as some (I) say, too eerie.

An oft-repeated rumour about the origins of Major League Baseball's logo points to Harmon Killebrew as the inspiration for the batter silhouette, but even designer Jerry Dior has denied that.

"People have said my design was based on Harmon Killebrew, but it wasn't," Dior said to MLB.com in 2009. He went on to say something about how it was just a generic silhouette and he purposefully made it ambiguous blah blah blah blah blah.

Likely story.

What Dior should've said in that interview is that he is actually a time traveller who had gone back to 1968 after seeing this majestic 2015 photo of Joey Wendle and concluded that no one represents baseball better than this 24-year-old skinny infielder who has not played a game above double-A.

Sure, he replaced Wendle's cap for a helmet, smoothed out some wrinkles, shortened his neck, and took out Wendle's fantastic eyelashes (look closely at the high-resolution photo) but it is impossible to hide the fact that the time-travelling theory just makes sense.

A's fans: you may have felt horrible after your club traded away Brandon Moss for this kid, but what they got back is more than a prospect: they got back the Face Of MLB.

Minor Leaguer (@Minor_Leaguer) is a regular contributor and conspiracy theorist at SB Nation's Blue Jays blog Bluebird Banter. In this italicized part, he is clearly trying to get up to the FanPost minimum word count. He thanks Athletics Nation's editor Alex Hall for expediting the approval of his membership and fully expects to be banned after this FanPost.