Cespedes pays $7K in bidding war for hog

Yoenis Cespedes put smiles on the faces of one family Sunday after attending the local county fair near the New York Mets' spring training facility in Port St. Lucie, Fla., and purchasing a 270-pound "grand champion" hog from the group.

Someone better make sure, then, that the family doesn't watch the final seconds of his famous showcase video for scouts from 2011.

Cespedes, who's shown in the video roasting a pig during random footage of a barbecue, appears to have bought his next meal - er, pet - after successfully bidding $7,000 on a locally-raised pig, according to ESPN's Adam Rubin.

A team official told Rubin that Cespedes was "in a bit of a bidding war for it."

According to local 4-H member Sandy Croghan, Cespedes watched the hog compete Saturday night before returning the next day and bidding for its services.

"He asked one of the people at the rodeo, 'Well, what would you buy?'" Croghan told Rubin. "(A bystander) said, 'The best one is the grand champion.' So he said, 'That's the one I want.'"

Cespedes' latest spring purchase isn't quite as extravagant as the expensive cars he's been driving to training camp each day, though the Mets are hoping the Cuban slugger has bigger things in store come April.

''I see he's been working on his collection of cars,'' Hall of Fame catcher Mike Piazza said Sunday. ''I don't care what you drive as long as you drive in runs. That's the key.''