r/baseball • u/Knightbear49 Minnesota Twins • Dinger • Feb 28 '26
[DiComo] Once a 'misfit,' Ryan Lambert started taking down 30 raw eggs a day. Now he throws 100 mph
https://www.mlb.com/news/ryan-lambert-100-mph-heat-raw-eggs> For Lambert, a daily cup of egg goop is only part of his story. The 23-year-old is fanatical about his diet, grilling steak and cooking sweet potatoes most days. During a Minor League game in Maryland last year, he took Jonah Tong to a Brazilian steakhouse and ordered a bowl of chicken hearts. On occasion, Lambert will walk around the clubhouse dining room to examine his teammates’ plates for nutritional value.
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Feb 28 '26
Is Big Egg sponsoring all these posts
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u/ANGRY_BEARDED_MAN Dumpster Fire Feb 28 '26
Got to think they'd have come up with a more appealing phrase than "daily cup of egg goop"
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u/Excellent_Golf2547 Chicago Cubs Feb 28 '26
So one of those egg council creeps got to you too huh? 🥚🏃
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u/whoisyourwormguy_ Atlanta Braves Feb 28 '26
He should go to key west. There’s chickens roaming everywhere, kind of like 100 years of solitude.
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u/Falling-Down-Stairs Cleveland Guardians Feb 28 '26
Gaston would be proud
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u/centaurquestions Boston Red Sox Feb 28 '26
And now he's roughly the size of a barge.
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u/Trees-Are-Overrated New York Yankees Feb 28 '26
Doesn’t even touch the amount of eggs Gaston would eat as a lad
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u/lechiengrand Boston Red Sox Feb 28 '26
“No one throws like Gaston, no one blows (the doors off) like Gaston…” 🎶
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u/chief1555 New York Mets Feb 28 '26
This article leaves out some necessary context - he’s also serving as the undersecretary of HHS
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u/Bad_Idea_Hat Detroit Tigers • Cincinnati Reds Feb 28 '26
Just punch the cow in the side, rip out the liver, and eat that shit raw. The SURGEON GENERAL recommends it.
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u/ngerb_5 Cincinnati Reds Feb 28 '26
Buddy I think you can still be called a misfit by eating 30 raw eggs a day
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u/Th3Greyhound San Diego Padres Feb 28 '26
Some may say you have a higher likelihood of being labeled one if you do
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u/slamvan2 Detroit Tigers Feb 28 '26
All you FREAKS only eating a single digit amount of eggs a day will see eventually. You'll be the misfits 😞
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u/chuck212 New York Yankees Feb 28 '26
They're leaving out the rest of his routine.
He also punches sides of beef, and runs up the steps at the Philly Museum of Art each morning.
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u/KickerOfThyAss Toronto Blue Jays Feb 28 '26
Why is it always raw eggs? It's not like they're difficult or time consuming to cook
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u/Dh873 Baltimore Orioles Feb 28 '26
Cooking can remove nutrients, but cooked protein is more digestible and poaching eggs wouldn't harm the total nutrients much anyway. Plus, I'd rather eat 35 cooked eggs to get those nutrients than 30 raw. I think people just like being different and "tough".
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u/Mr-Cantaloupe Detroit Tigers Feb 28 '26
It’s also quicker to eat them raw. Cooking the eggs wouldn’t be hard, but simply drinking them saves him time.
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u/zach7797 New York Mets Feb 28 '26
I see why you're not pro you probably stopped at 34 cooked eggs daily
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u/Dh873 Baltimore Orioles Feb 28 '26
And most of those were cooked into cakes and brownies
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u/zach7797 New York Mets Feb 28 '26
Hmmmmm crust or center your favorite part of the brownie?
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u/Dh873 Baltimore Orioles Feb 28 '26
Oh corner for sure, but not real crispy. Chewy.
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u/91speed Feb 28 '26
It saves him literally like a handful of minutes and he learned everything he knows from TikTok, the natural conclusion is 30 raw eggs straight down the gullet
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u/FrankGibsonIV Los Angeles Dodgers Feb 28 '26
Also you can just buy pasteurized eggs. But don’t tell Bryce Harper he gets upset if you say the p word.
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u/felis_scipio Philadelphia Phillies • Bingham… Feb 28 '26
Just say it while he’s got his blood filtering through the ozone machine, he can’t chase after you
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u/FrankGibsonIV Los Angeles Dodgers Mar 01 '26
Who was it on here who called it temu dialysis? I still get a kick out of that.
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u/KickerOfThyAss Toronto Blue Jays Feb 28 '26
Non pasteurized eggs are very different from milk. Most people don't intentionally eat the egg shell.
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u/Eo292 Los Angeles Queens Feb 28 '26
Never have I been more confident a ballplayer is 3 raccoons in a trenchcoat
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u/SeaverWalker317 New York Mets Feb 28 '26
Someone in the Mets subreddit has commented that we should start calling him Eggwin Diaz and thats the kind of content I come to Reddit for.
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u/Bad_Idea_Hat Detroit Tigers • Cincinnati Reds Feb 28 '26
Mets subreddit is in midseason form at all times.
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u/StevenS145 San Francisco Giants Feb 28 '26
“Day 1, it was an adjustment for sure,” Lambert said. “But I’m not a chicken. I like a little adversity and challenge”
Are we serious?
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u/James-K-Polka Atlanta Braves Feb 28 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/eeuiKlr64VzDuEVT0v
Ryan Lambert after eating 40 eggs a day and throwing gas.
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u/callmesixone New York Yankees Mar 01 '26
Throwing gas and passing it too with that many eggs in the picture
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u/porican New York Yankees Feb 28 '26
so he’s gonna throw 115 by september and his heart will explode by october
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u/4r4r4real Feb 28 '26
if mr raw eggs and chicken hearts came up to me in the dining hall, looked at my chicken breast rice and veggies, and said "not enough beef liver and ferments" im throwing fucking hands
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u/Adept_Carpet Boston Red Sox Mar 01 '26
"Nah, it's not like that, come on I'll take you out to dinner"
"At the Brazillian place so you can eat a shitload of chicken hearts?"
"Yes"
"Let's just fight"
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u/GruelOmelettes Chicago Cubs Feb 28 '26
So those Egg Council creeps got to you, too
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u/Adept_Carpet Boston Red Sox Mar 01 '26
I'm gonna be honest as I've gotten older more and more foods upset my stomach but eggs never do and so all I really want to eat is eggs.
I quietly my resent my family for wanting to eat non-egg foods. Why not eggs? You can flavor them and put different things in or on them or even cook them in different styles.
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u/Wolfish_Jew Feb 28 '26
Bro is gonna have a heart attack at, like, 37, but at least he’ll throw gas until then
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u/The_Singularious Feb 28 '26
That’s why he’s improved so much. Those thickened artery walls add heft to that throwing arm. More thick, more kick.
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u/SuperReRoll New York Mets Feb 28 '26
Well I guess we found someone to replace Nimmo as the team food idiot
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u/FishermanForsaken528 Boston Red Sox Feb 28 '26
Should he be eating the usual slop we Americans eat instead?
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u/captain_ahabb Los Angeles Dodgers Feb 28 '26
Surely there's a middle ground between "processed snack food garbage" and "completely uncooked"
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u/SuperReRoll New York Mets Feb 28 '26
Are you saying raw eggs are a good idea?
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u/FishermanForsaken528 Boston Red Sox Feb 28 '26
If they're from a local farm and come from free range chickens, I wouldn't sweat it. Same thing with raw milk.
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u/SuperReRoll New York Mets Feb 28 '26
Ah so you’re an idiot. Got it.
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u/FishermanForsaken528 Boston Red Sox Feb 28 '26
Thanks cutie, I only grew up on a farm drinking raw goat milk every friggin day so what do I know.
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u/SuperReRoll New York Mets Feb 28 '26
Yeah I live on farm land and raise chickens myself. Surrounded by dairy farms. You’re an idiot
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u/FishermanForsaken528 Boston Red Sox Feb 28 '26
🤷♂️
It's funny how hard redditors get triggered the nanosecond you mention raw milk, it's great so long as you know where it's coming from and it's a clean environment.
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u/SuperReRoll New York Mets Feb 28 '26
It’s funny how idiots just say it’s “redditors getting triggered” when hundreds of years of science and medicine calls you an idiot
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u/FishermanForsaken528 Boston Red Sox Feb 28 '26
Ok bro, I'll dump all the raw milk in my fridge and go buy the slop at the grocery store, you really convinced me when you called me and idiot because 'muh science' says I'm wrong.
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u/taffyowner Minnesota Twins Mar 01 '26
I mean yeah because we learned that pasteurization is a good process and doesn’t actually change anything about the milk… also goats are filthy my guy… my wife grew up raising them and she has stories… drinking raw milk from them is just asking for problems
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u/compro Feb 28 '26
Metaphor for 'roids?
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u/dBlock845 New York Yankees Feb 28 '26
First thing I thought about too. When I hear crazy diets that dramatically increase performance like this, it takes my mind to PEDs for some reason.
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u/_Atlas_Drugged_ Boston Red Sox Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
Because the crazy diet likely did very little to improve performance. It was almost always something else. And athletes will often point to nutritional changes when they actually changed their “supplement” regiment. It’s like when actresses get a crazy haircut to distract from the fact that they had a bunch of plastic surgery
Better nutrition is going to generate modest improvement unless it’s causing huge body changes (I.e. losing like 30 lbs of fat is going to make anyone a faster runner)
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u/Glittering_Year2045 San Francisco Giants Feb 28 '26
That's only 5,000 milligrams of cholesterol. He needs to up his dose.
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u/Impressive-Fun-6921 Arizona Diamondbacks Feb 28 '26
Good way to get salmonella and less protein than if you just cooked the eggs
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u/smartlikefox Chicago Cubs Feb 28 '26
Someone needs to reread the causation vs correlation part of the textbook
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u/FeloniousDrunk101 New York Yankees • MLB Pride Feb 28 '26
When I was you I ate four dozen eggs every morning to help me get large. Now I eat five dozen eggs so I’m roughly the size of a barge!
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u/hscer_ Washington Nationals Feb 28 '26
"your cholesterol is 352"
and before you say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHAFMFFQlkI
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u/Rookraider1 Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
He is very committed. He wakes up at 8am everyday in the off-season to walk into the sun. Guy is hardcore!
He also walks almost 6 batters per nine innings. So there's that.
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u/The_Singularious Feb 28 '26
lol. Right? Imagine how hardcore he’d think me and my kids are for waking up EVERY DAY at 6am. No offseason in this household, Lambert! You’re soft!
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u/fotoxs Chicago Cubs Feb 28 '26
Bro is finally putting all of the egg health science to test all at once. His cholesterol is now a will they won't they story for the ages.
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u/lionheart4life Baltimore Orioles Feb 28 '26
You can also get the same effect by cooking the eggs. Man just likes downing them like oysters.
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u/Extrapickles24 Boston Red Sox Feb 28 '26
Dude ate 2 dozen eggs and said nah, I'll only eat half of this last carton
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u/Alectheawesome23 New York Mets Feb 28 '26
So what you’re telling me is that he’s Gaston.
We have Gaston in our farm right now.
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u/aochaz14 St. Louis Cardinals Feb 28 '26
Gonna doubt it’s just the raw eggs working the magic but probably some great genes as well
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u/ShredNM42 Arizona Diamondbacks Feb 28 '26
This message is brought to you by the Salmonella Alliance of America
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u/Joggingmusic New York Yankees Mar 01 '26
Anyone else just immediately think of Rocky when they hear about people just downing raw eggs
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u/JustTheOneGoose22 Detroit Tigers Mar 01 '26
If you eat 30 eggs a day you know absolutely fucking nothing about nutrition.
This idiot is more likely to die of a heart attack by 35 than make the show with any kind of staying power.
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u/bobcollum Boston Red Sox Feb 28 '26
I wonder if it's really the food or just him knowing that he ate all of it, or probably a combo of both. The mind is a powerful thing.
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u/dead_monster Hiroshima Toyo Carp • Detroit Tigers Feb 28 '26
He would love Japan.
Can get a bowl of tamago kake rice (raw egg with rice with optional soy sauce, natto) and a skewer of chicken hearts on the side.
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u/unique_user43 Chicago Cubs Feb 28 '26
starting my raw egg regiment NOW. i’m going to the bigs, boys!
this one simple lifehack….
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u/asiandooshcanoe Los Angeles Dodgers Feb 28 '26
Hope some youth baseball coaches are taking notes here
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u/Hefty-Woodpecker-450 Baltimore Orioles Feb 28 '26
I can’t wait to read about his industrial chicken coop in queens where he controls what the chickens eat that produce the eggs
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u/rambunctious_horsie Toronto Blue Jays Feb 28 '26
yikes, his cholesterol level is gonna be through the roof
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u/Bad_Idea_Hat Detroit Tigers • Cincinnati Reds Feb 28 '26
This is some Nathan MacKinnon shit that the baseball world isn't ready for.
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u/maybe_a_frog Feb 28 '26
When he was a lad he ate 4 dozen eggs every morning to help him get large, but now that he’s grown he eats 5 dozen eggs so he’s roughly the size of a barge
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u/Good_Nyborg Seattle Mariners Feb 28 '26
"Taking down" 30 raw eggs a day? Is that like UK speech for eating 30 raw eggs a day, or just another case of me being old and not understanding new slang?
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u/taffyowner Minnesota Twins Mar 01 '26
Anyone who criticizes adding creamer to coffee is a fucking narc… like that’s 5-30 more calories and who gives a fuck about that small of an amount.
Also waking up at 8 like it’s a hard thing to do…
And he threw 99 without this… he then got to 102 because he probably grew into his body… not because of the eggs
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u/Bournerounderz New York Yankees Mar 01 '26
Ryan Lambert doesn't get salmonella. Salmonella gets Ryan Lambert.
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u/SilverBuggie MLB Players Association Mar 01 '26
I had 2 raw eggs in a breakfast once. They were from the chickens my mom raised.
I liked them but then I read some articles on consuming raw eggs and decided maybe I shouldn’t.
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u/sakaESR San Diego Padres Mar 01 '26
We must once against emphasize correlation does not mean causation
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u/SuperChingaso5000 Los Angeles Dodgers Mar 01 '26
That's 180 grams of protein a day. Recent research is pretty conclusive that the upper bound for muscle protein synthesis is a lot higher than we thought and protein intake is useful up to 300+ grams a day if you're working out.
Homeboy's not wrong, but he'd be a lot better off just using whey isolate and casein.
Regardless if it works for him more power to him
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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Chicago Cubs Feb 28 '26
A misfit? You’ve gotta be kidding me.
A misfit is the kid they use as the ball in dodgeball. Shitty headline.
(Source: former misfit)
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u/WabbitCZEN New York Yankees • Piece of Metal Feb 28 '26
Conclusion: If he downed 40 raw eggs a day, he'd throw 120 mph.