MLB player plans to wear cup for first time since 1995

MLB player plans to wear cup for first time since 1995
Mariners 3B Adrian Beltre, on the disabled list with a severely bruised testicle, took batting practice and did some light fielding in the outfield before Monday's game. Will he be wearing a cup when he returns to action? With a smile, Beltre pointed to a cup in a wrapper that was sitting in his locker, placed there by an unnamed teammate. "They put one in my locker, but I don't know," he said. Beltre finally acknowledged that yes, "probably I will [wear a cup]. The swelling is still there, so maybe for now, I have to." He said he has worn a cup only once in his career, when he played in the Dominican Republic as a Dodgers rookie in 1995. -- Seattle Times
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Don't players wear cups anymore? Is it optional?

I thought it was a given that players wore cups.

i thought that too, but i guess we were wrong!

MLB player returns from injured testicle, with cup, to theme of "The Nutcracker"
Adrian Beltre didn't want to discuss whether or not he'd be wearing a protective cup for Tuesday's start at third base. Beltre is getting fed up with the questions and jokes flying around the past three weeks since he injured a testicle while trying to field a ground ball without the proper equipment. But while he says he'll never answer that particular question again, manager Don Wakamatsu did the talking for him. "Adrian will wear a cup tonight," Wakamatsu said before Tuesday's game. When Beltre came up for his first at-bat, the theme for Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" was played, a gesture from Ken Griffey Jr. -- Seattle Times
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They played the Nutcracker theme when he came out to bat. That is funny!

that's messed up...lol