BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Birmingham Barons shortstop Eddy Alvarez has a "hidden secret."
Alvarez is a Miami native and son of Cuban immigrants who won a silver medal in the Winter Olympics as part of the USA's 5,000-meter relay speedskating team in Sochi, Russia, in 2014.
You read that right. Miami. Winter Olympics. Silver medal. Speedskating.
But there's nothing secretive about that. After all, the whole world was watching "Eddy the Jet" two years ago.
He then walked on at Salt Lake Community College in 2011 and became the team’s starting shortstop before undergoing surgery to repair a dozen tears between both knees.