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I’m having to re-write my introduction because the news about Luis Valbuena broke as I was writing this article. I just wanted to include my own personal memory of the time I got hit in the chest with a ball thrown by Luis Valbuena. It was early in 2012 and Valbuena was still playing with the Iowa Cubs. I was sitting in the first row behind the I-Cubs dugout and when the players finished warming up between innings, Valbuena (who was at second base that day) threw the ball into the Cubs dugout. Except Valbuena missed and the ball bounced about ten feet before the dugout.