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Willson Contreras' bat-flip game is already in midseason form

The MLB regular season is still 13 days away, but Willson Contreras is ready for the swings to count.

The Cubs catcher hit an absolute bomb of a homer Friday afternoon off White Sox pitcher Reynaldo Lopez, but it wasn't just a homer.

Contreras put an exclamation mark on the dinger (his third of the spring and the second this week) with an A+ bat flip:

Yu Darvish and Reynaldo Lopez were locked in a pitchers' duel through three innings... then Willson Contreras and Mike Freeman did this: pic.twitter.com/enKeSE8zAn

— NBC Sports Chicago (@NBCSChicago) March 16, 2018

I'm not sure what's more majestic: The 450-foot shot or the 45-foot bat-flip.