Every guy looks different after shaving off a full beard, but I can’t remember somebody looking as unrecognizable as a clean-shaven Jake Arrieta does.
The 2015 NL Cy Young winner is in offseason mode — with the Cubs losing to Dodgers in the NLCS last week — and got rid of his famous beard to the delight of his wife, Brittany.
Look at this totally different dude:
Compared to this photo of him from last week:
Arrieta actually did the same last year after the Cubs won the World Series (top right next to John Lackey):
The right-hander is a free agent, and maybe with the clean-shaven look he’ll now interest the Yankees!