You have to feel for picture day portrait artists. There are only so many ways to take a worthwhile picture of a man’s face without getting too cute. After pouring over enough boring head shots from MLB’s various picture days, you soon gain an appreciation for those who at least try.
Try to make your shots interesting, even if it only ends in tears like poor, pensive Strasburg seen above. At least you tried.
Without further ado, hit the jump for some of the best and beardiest of this year’s picture day photos! Vote for your favorite beard in the comment section.
Early contender for best beard, if not best man. Jayson Werth, I want you to teach me things. Things about life and things about livin’, man.
Lots of fun had at Joba’s expense re: his inexplicable moustache. I say go with, Joba. Go with it and OWN it.
Poor Eli Whiteside. The well-travelled catcher was waived and claimed three times in the moment it took for the camera lens to open and close in capturing this photo.
This is what “getting too cute” looks like. The entire Giants team took weird photos inside this old-style jacuzzi tub. Which is just about the weirdest thing I’ve seen.
Beard alert! Andrew Miller looks right as well as terrifying!
Pretty excited for Justin Sellers‘ follow-up 7″ to the stand out Death Before DFA release with “Joe Torre can suck it” inscribed on the record matrix.
Looking sharp, Andrew Cashner. Really think this will be a good year for you, bro. Wait, hurt again? Less bullish on your future, homey.
MONEYBALL JOKE GOES HERE, NERD.
It’s good to be (afraid of) the King.
No words. Not a one.
Strong beard entry from Jason Motte. Should be bulletproof by October.
Jason Giambi is both intense and in his forties. A deadly combination – literally. Watch that blood pressure, Giambino.
Heath Bell needed a hug after a tough season but nobody stepped up to the plate so Bell took care of it himself.
A boy and his dream job, together at last.
The one of Stras is actually pretty good.
Giambi looks to be preparing for his fate as The Harbinger in slasher flicks.
MONEYBALL JOKE GOES HERE, NERD.
That’s funny stuff.
Who is that bespectacled young man? I want to go back in time and put his picture on my freshman college dorm room wall along with the Slam Up of Josh Childress when he was playing for Stanford.
I believe it’s Eric Sogard
Giambi should say thanks to Farrell … for once he’s only the second biggest douchebag in the lineup.
Nailed it!
And then some words… long enough… your girlfriend… yep.
King Felix picture is the baddest ass thing I’ve seen all day
I believe the correct phrasing is “bad assest”
“baddest-assed”
I’m calling it that in the next 5 to 8 years King Felix will be on a CSI variant as the “King” pin of some Latino street gang.
The only people more racist than writers are people who don’t know any better and actual racists.
Cameo!!!!
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Looks like he just smoked a fat bowl of performance de-hancers.
Suck it Farrel.
Know that feel, Stras. Know that feel.
Jayson Werth, praise his beard and flow.
I can’t believe you didn’t include Bartolol Colon’s new pix. So much pudgy adorableness must be shared.
The photographers rotate teams each year, and “themes” get repeated (like last year’s Yankees bathroom). Don’t know where the satanic red-light photographer ended up – the Phillies shots last year (year before?) were hideous and hardly funny at all.
Werth looks like he’s trying to get cast for an upcoming season of Game of Thrones.
Werth looks like he murdered a hobo and then slept inside his corpse.
He’s seen some shit Man!
Good morning Mr President, what a fine day it…OH SHIT it’s just Farrell
That chin gets me every time
SUCK it Farrel 4th place!
Giambi looks exactly like an owl.
I imagine Werth telling biker gang stories but with Sam Elliott’s voice. Probably a story about killing a hobo too.
That’s the happiest Farrell will look all season. S.I.F.
That’s not an ‘old-style jacuzzi tub’ that the Giants posed in, it’s an ice bath tub. You fill it with cold water and throw in a bunch of ice cubes, then there’s a jet to keep the water circulating around your skin (otherwise, your body would heat up a thin layer of water around your body – keeping it circulating keeps the water around you colder). “Cold-tubbing” is used by many athletes to aid in post-workout recovery so that you can come back stronger the next day.
Thanks! The photo is still weird.
So you’re saying it’s a Performance Enhancing Drum?