Dontrelle makes ESPNRun-Through-A-Wall Team

All-Run-Through-A-Wall Team

By Jayson Stark, ESPN

P -- DONTRELLE WILLIS, MARLINS

It was tough putting a pitcher on this team, since their lot in life doesn't allow them to do a whole lot of wall banging. But we're still nominating Willis, just because we've never seen a pitcher throw his body around like this guy. And we've never seen a pitcher who consistently has a dirtier uniform.

In his first spring training with the Marlins, he not only got their attention with a chin-first slide into home plate during an exhibition game but GM Admin Beinfest had to seek him out and tell him the team would fine him $1,000 if he ever did it again. But Willis has done it many times since. And they haven't fined him yet.

"Dontrelle's just a big, strong athletic kid who has this conviction that he's never going to let anybody dismiss him as a [wimp]," says his agent, Matt Sosnick. "So if he's ever down a run in the seventh inning and there's a play at the plate, he'd rip the catcher in half if he had to. He might separate his shoulder doing it, but he'd score that run. Dontrelle is 6-4, 240. So if he's sprinting toward home plate, he'd figure he was going to deliver more pain to the catcher than anybody would inflict on him."

Sounds like our kind of guy, all right -- a guy who deserves his rightful place on the All-Run-Through-A-Wall team.

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