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I know enough to know that when the subject is Nationals first baseman Adam LaRoche rendered as a werewolf, the throat-clearing should be kept to a minimum. So here, courtesy of Matt Smith of NotGraphs, is Mr. LaRoche adorned with wolf hair, wolf teeth, eyes jaundiced from dabbling in the occult and a lunar-driven bloodlust ...

Not for nothing, but when I was a kid I harbored dark suspicions that the late Bo Diaz, largely because of one of his especially harrowing Fleer cards, may have been a werewolf. Now we know that their kind hits, runs and fields among us.

Thanks again to Mr. Smith for his urgent and necessary work.