Ronald Guzman is now a proud parent of … a California condor.
“It’s my baby now,” the Texas Rangers first baseman said Thursday.
Considering Guzman has carried the nickname “Condor” since his early days in the Rangers’ farm system, the result of being 6-foot-6 with an enormous wingspan, his online adoption of the endangered bird starts to make some sense.
But it wasn’t something done on a whim.
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As Guzman explains it, he and outfielder Joey Gallo were thinking of ways to be more charitable and use their platforms as major-league ballplayers to do some good.