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Yoenis Cespedes bought 270-pound hog … yep a live animal

So now Yoenis Cespedes bought a hog — and we don’t mean a Harley-Davidson.

Cespedes, who’s made headlines and raised eyebrows with a dizzying array of cars — and three-wheelers — in spring training, dropped $7,000 over the weekend on a 270-pound grand-champion hog at the St. Lucie County Fair.

Cespedes, according to a Mets spokesman, went to the fair with teammates Saturday night and watched the hog competition, then won an auction for the pig, raised by a member of the local 4-H club.

A woman on Twitter said Cespedes had bought the pig.

“I was at the SLC Fair and he purchased my grandsons Grand Champion hog.