Padres Andrew Cashner meets his lookalike teammate
It’s always fun spotting a celebrity or fan who happens to look like a major league player and doing the old side-by-side photo comparison. However, in the case of San Diego Padres pitcher Andrew Cashner, we didn’t even have to look outside his own team’s spring training facility to find his doppelganger.
As Corey Brock of MLB.com writes, a minor league pitcher named Jeffery Enloe is a spitting image of the 6-foot-6 right-hander, right on down to his light hair and full beard.
That’s “Cash” on the right and the man now known as “Coins” on the left, which is fitting given that’s the arm each pitcher throws with. That’s a notable physical difference. Visually, Cashner’s signature mullet is the only way to tell them apart at first glance. If you look a little closer, you might be able to tell that Cashner is one inch taller than Enloe. Aside from that though, it’s like looking at long lost brothers, if not twins.
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As Brock notes, Padres minor league staff started to notice the resemblance last season as Enloe, a 37th round draft pick in 2013, slowly established his presence in the system. However, it was newly arrived pitcher James Shields who brought it to Cashner’s attention after spotting Enloe during an early spring workout.
“Shields told me about him, but I hadn’t met him,” said Cashner, who was admittedly suspicious. “But then I saw him and it was scary. I was like, ‘Holy smokes, he looks just like me.'”
Once the connection was made and Padres players saw Cash and Coins together, it was only a matter of time before this happened.
As part of manager Bud Black’s team-building exercises in the morning, instructors Trevor Hoffman and Mark Loretta walked over to the Minor League clubhouse to get Enloe.
“They told me what was going on and to have fun with it,” Enloe said. “They gave me a little heads-up.”
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It was a nice moment to lighten the mood, but Enloe’s ultimate goal is to become Cashner’s full-time teammate at the major league level. In that regard, he still has a ways to go. In 34 appearances (18 starts) at the minor league level, the 25-year-old has a 4.99 ERA and a 84-35 strikeout-to-walk ratio. He might even be considered a long shot to make it, but perhaps spending time in the Padres clubhouse will be just the motivation he needs to move up the depth chart.
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Mark Townsend is a writer for Big League Stew on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter! Follow @Townie813
