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Burke Badenhop got Aledmys Diaz to roll over a ball so hard, the seams popped

By Michael Clair

There are heavy sinkers and then there are sinkers so heavy they have their own gravitational field. Burke Badenhop's must be in the second camp. The right-hander, who has thrown predominately sinkers and splitters during his career, reared back and tossed one heavy enough that not only did he get Aledmys Diaz to roll over the ball and send it foul, but he got him to pop the seams on it, too. 

Well, it's either that or the ball was definitely not reporting to camp in the best shape of its life. 

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