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Keppinger claims phone was hijacked after controversial tweet

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Jeff Keppinger, the former journeyman who played for seven teams throughout his meandering nine-year major-league career, claims it wasn't him who sent a (now deleted) racially loaded tweet from his account Wednesday morning.

Nearly four hours after that tweet was sent, the retired 36-year-old claimed someone had hijacked his phone:

Keith Law, the ESPN prospect guru who often discusses politics and social issues on Twitter, was among those not buying Keppinger's explanation:

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