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11 minutes of MLB "Houdini" Slides! (Javy Báez, Josh Harrison & more!)
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Javier Báez is the MASTER of the Houdini slide and proved it again this week! But "El Mago" is far from the only wizard of the Dark (Sliding) Arts 🪄
From Javy to Ichiro to Mike Trout, we are looking back at 10 minutes of the most creative slides to avoid the tag in MLB history!
*What’s your favorite slide in this video?* Let us know in the comments which ones surprised you the most, and which ones we missed — there's plenty of time to make a Part 2 😈
*Chapters:*
0:00 Intro
0:08 Baez (2026)
1:15 Chris Coghlan
1:45 Josh Harrison (2014)
2:22 Dustin Pedroia
3:22 Baez (2016)
3:42 Billy Hamilton
4:05 Bobby Witt Jr.
4:29 Greg Maddux
4:58 Ichiro
5:32 Josh Donaldson
5:55 Ryan Fitzgerald
6:17 Josh Harrison (2017)
6:39 Mike Trout
7:08 Mickey Mantle
7:31 Freddie Freeman
8:02 Alcides Escobar
8:38 Matt Carpenter
9:14 Mitch Haniger
9:44 Fernando Tatis Jr.
10:08 Garrett Hampson
10:36 Jason Kendall
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