People are convinced these look-alike athletes with same name are twins – so they take a DNA test
People think these two minor league baseball pitchers look so much alike that they must be identical twins.
One is Brady Matthew Feigl (born December 27, 1990). He’s a left-handed pitcher, born in Maryland, who played at Mount St. Mary’s and now plays on the Double-A Texas Rangers affiliate in Round Rock, Texas. The other is Brady Gregory Feigl (born November 27, 1995), a right-handed pitcher from Missouri who previously played at Mississippi, and is now playing for the Single-A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics.
Same name, same job, same glasses. And with those thick, red beards, they look a lot alike.
But with one born in 1990 and the other in 1995, they’re certainly not identical twins – that’s not how that works. If you share a womb at the same time, you share a birthday. And someone would certainly notice if they were missing 5 years of their life.
Still, people think surely they must be related somehow.
At the very least, it’s certainly a grand coincidence – they’re even both 6 feet 4 inches tall! To top it off, both of them underwent Tommy John surgery and used the same doctor, according to Inside Edition. (Then again, that might just be a doctor affiliated with Minor League Baseball.)
When Inside Edition first talked to them in 2018, viewers went nuts over their similarities. So much so that Inside Edition came back the following year and arranged for a DNA test for the two to take.
Brady (Matthew) Feigl said: “The week that it hit TV, my phone blew up.” He couldn’t look at his device without being bombarded with notifications. And the two are now constantly asked how the “other Brady Feigl” is doing.
The Feigls think it’s all pretty funny, but they agreed to spit into a tube to satisfy the world’s curiosity.
Do you think they still look like relatives without the same glasses on and baseball hats atop their heads? We’re not so sure.
Some commenters had other ideas:
Still, they feel like there are enough similarities between them that at some point “way back down the line” perhaps they had a relative in common. Both seemed to agree to the test partly to learn more about the rest of their ancestry – though it would also tell them if they were related.
Feigl is a German name and isn’t terribly common, so it wouldn’t be a shock to find out they were related.
They also both agreed it was somewhat weird to spit into a tube for access to the treasure trove of genetic data that lay within their bodies, something that more and more people are engaging in (sometimes with less-than-desirable results).
Inside Edition brought them together one more time in the clubhouse to read the results from their ancestry tests.
As they pour over their genetic heritage, they find some interesting results.
But no, they’re not twins. They’re not even brothers (which is good news for all of their parents, who won’t have to explain something awkward).
Be sure to scroll down to see what it is the two do have in common.
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Source: Inside Edition via YouTube