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Repeat the baseball season over and over and over with some of the most popular GIFs from 2016

By Michael Clair

When the camera was invented, it forever changed how humans viewed images. The same thing happened when the GIF -- that glorious repeating image form -- came to be.
So now, relive the best, most amusing and most touching moments of the 2016 season, with some of the most popular GIFs as judged by your reactions on @MLBGIFs.
Friendship
New Jersey-born Todd Frazier and Mike Trout bonded. Presumably over their love of pork roll as a breakfast meat. 

Elvis Andrus and Rougned Odor took extensive acting classes, probably just to learn how to best mirror each other. 

Bryce Harper and Max Scherzer definitely spent weeks rehearsing this move. 

Sick moves 
Rarely are first pitches better than the actual pitches you'll see during the game. This one was the exception to the rule. 

Adrián Beltré's got moves on moves.

And the entire Pirates lineup had a dance recital.

Impossible moments
Buster Posey's arm is actually just a laser. 

Jose Ramirez has his own gravitational force.

Cubs (because of course they're going to get their own section)
Cubs players sure were happy in 2016. 

Cubs fans were also happy. 

I guess it's because they won their first World Series in 108 years. 

An end to an era
It wasn't just the Cubs that ended a long streak. After 500-plus home runs and countless iconic moments, David Ortiz called it a career in 2016. There was only one way to react. 

We said goodbye to José Fernández
Unfortunately, the baseball season also had one crushing moment of sadness as we said farewell to Jose Fernandez. But in a moment of magic, when the Marlins returned to the field, Dee Gordon led off with a home run. 

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