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It's as much an annual rite of Spring as blurry photos of pitchers on practice mounds, Vines of the first bullpen sessions and first live BP sessions, updates on winter beard and hair growth, ITBSOHL updates and other things that people talk about as Spring Training cliches that we can't think of to end this sentence. It's Photo Day!
The day the photographers grab pictures of anyone and everyone they can, collecting mugshot-ish photos of all of your favorite players.
So who won Photo Day for the Washington Nationals this time around?
We picked out out Top 10 Photo Day pics (in no particular order) and figured we'd put up a poll so that you can pick a winner...
10. Denard Span has $9M reasons to smile after the Nationals picked up his option for 2015:
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9. Mike Carp is battling for a spot on the Nats' bench, and he's got the beard for the job:
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8. Danny Espinosa's stache puts Yosemite Sam's to shame:
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7. Max Scherzer is one happy man. Note - Heterochromia: a difference in coloration in two anatomical structures or two parts of the same structure which are normally alike in color:
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6. Doug Fister plays it all cool and aloof and "I don't need to look 'at' the camera":
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5. Jordan Zimmermann is very serious... like a Peek Frean?:
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4. Thinks baseball is boring. Yawns during games. Can really, seriously hit. He's got the sort-of smirk down. Anthony Rendon:
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3. Jerry Blevins looks like he can't help but laugh at every moment:
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2. Who snuck this young teenager with the over-sized cap into the Photo Day pics?:
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1. Werth stares right through your soul:
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