In fact, the way they tell it in the New York Mets clubhouse, he saw a guitar when he was with the Boston Red Sox last year, decided he wanted to play it and learned right away.
The way they tell it in the Mets clubhouse, there's nothing Cespedes can't do.
"I don't think so," Kelly Johnson said this week. "Doesn't his nickname mean 'talent'? To me, that kind of says it all, because whatever he wants to do, he can do."
Cespedes' nickname, La Potencia, actually means "The Power." But that fits, too, as the Mets and the rest of the National League are quickly learning.