HEADed for Japan: ‘The Mench Endgame’

In December 2008, former Rangers, Brewers and Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Mench avoided a likely platoon, bench or minor league role in Major League Baseball when he signed a lucrative 1-year/$2 million contact to join the Hanshin Tigers of Japanese baseball. Additionally, Mench is unable to grow hair anywhere on his body; he has one of the largest heads in the world, hails from Delaware and willingly has barb wire and a Philadelphia Eagle’s logo tattooed on his bicep. Follow me in keeping tabs on one of baseball’s most underwhelming, odd and polarizing figures as he HEADs to the playing field of Asia. When we last left Kevin Mench, the large-craniumed, alopecia’d one was battling injury and crappiness in the first month of...