The New York Mets sent out an email Monday afternoon advertising Jeff McNeil Bobblehead Day April 18. McNeil is a great player and certainly deserves a bobblehead. But pretty quickly, a problem presented itself.
Simply put, the design looks almost nothing like him. The bobblehead is tanned and olive-skinned, and has a textured, gingery beard, characteristics that McNeil doesn’t possess.
It also shows McNeil swinging a bat with a light handle and a dark barrel, when a quick web search reveals that most of the time, McNeil swings a bat that is either uniformly light or has a dark handle and a light barrel.