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White Sox prospect Yoan Moncada sometimes ate 85 Twinkies in a week, once ate 225

White Sox prospect Yoan Moncada has been known to LOVE to eat Twinkies — probably a lot more than you thought anyone could ever love those sponge cake snacks.

It’s something that has been mentioned a few times. ESPN’s Eli Saslow noted it in his great feature story that was published online on Thursday. Per Saslow, Moncada’s agent said:

He is a versatile defender with natural speed and a sculpted upper body, and yet his agent says Moncada has sometimes mowed through 85 Twinkies in a week.

That is a lot of Twinkies. That’d be about 12 Twinkies per day. But, there’s another story from September 2016, written by Jeff Passan for Yahoo! Sports, that says Moncada has actually eaten many, many more:

Nothing brought Yoan Moncada, a teenage boy stuck inside a man’s body, quite the satisfaction of a Twinkie. He never could limit himself to one. Or two. He wolfed them down like a snake eating its prey whole. This may sound like an exaggeration, and it may be apocryphal, but those closest to Moncada swear it’s true: One time, over the course of one week, he ate 225 Twinkies.

So, during his first couple years as an MLB prospect, Moncada once ate 225 Twinkies in a week, and more than once ate 85 Twinkies in a week. And yet, he’s listed at 6-foot-2 and 205 pounds. Pretty amazing.

A Bleacher Report story from March 2016 by Bill Speros also includes a small part about Twinkies, courtesy of Moncada’s agent’s wife, Jo Hastings:

If you want to know what Moncada is like away from the diamond, she offers this simple description: “He’s a 20-year-old kid, at home on the couch playing Playstation, snacking on a box of Twinkies.”

However, according to CSN Chicago‘s Dan Hayes, Moncada doesn’t eat them anymore.

I truly hope you enjoyed being informed on Moncada’s love of Twinkies.

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