Look Good, Feel Good, Play Good. Smell Good?

In the minors, the place gamers typically make meager salaries, Pérez stated he didn’t see many gamers spraying themselves earlier than video games. But within the majors, all the things is extra, from the paychecks to the notoriety.

“You’ve got to look good,” stated Astros infielder Aledmys Díaz, 31, a Cuban. “This is the show.”

Before he defected from Cuba in 2016, Gurriel stated he used a cologne from the Antonio Banderas Collection — the one cologne model he may discover. In the United States, he has extra choices and cash, so he buys extra steadily. And as a result of he performs first base, he will get visits from opponents all through the sport.

“All the players always tell me, ‘You always smell good,’” he stated, laughing.

Francisco Lindor, the Mets shortstop from Puerto Rico, rotates between half a dozen scents earlier than video games and typically mixes them. He stated that if gamers catch a whiff of one thing they like on the sector, they ask one another what they’re carrying.

Even although most gamers are sometimes a number of dozen ft away from one another on the sector, Suárez stated he likes listening to that he smells good. Pérez stated he can typically choose up the aroma of Luis Severino, a Dominican pitcher for the Yankees who makes use of a ladies’s physique splash, regardless of Severino being 60 ft 6 inches away when going through him.

“I’m a catcher so I sweat a lot,” Pérez stated, pointing to all his gear. “So a little perfume helps. The umpires say, ‘Oh Salvy, you smell good.’ I say, ‘Thank you. Give me some strikes.’”