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Marlins players are having trouble adjusting to the new no facial hair rule

Pitcher Jarred Cosart is the first Marlin to run afoul of the team’s new anti-facial hair rule. 

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The Marlins have instituted a no facial hair rule this season and some players are having trouble adjusting. 

The formerly-bearded Jarred Cosart revealed in a radio interview Wednesday that his scruff drew the ire of manager Don Mattingly earlier in the day. Shame on him!

• The 2016 guide to baseball’s finest facial hair

“Make sure I’m not the one telling you to shave,” is a pretty good way of being the one to tell a guy to shave.

- Dan Gartland

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