So nice, they may have made him twice.
Two Minor League baseball pitchers with the exact same name — and eerily similar looks — took a DNA test to find out if they’re actually related after years of being confused for one another.
Brady Feigl, 32, who is a player for the Long Island Ducks, looks nearly-identical to the other Brady Feigl, 27, who plays for the Las Vegas Aviators. The pair both measure up at 6 feet four inches tall, have fiery red hair and wear glasses.
In 2015, the doppelgängers were first mistaken for the other when they both had the exact same elbow surgery performed by the same doctor, named Dr. James Andrews.
“I was probably six or seven months out of surgery and their office called our trainer and said, “Hey, when’s Brady reporting for surgery? Is he getting down here tomorrow?” Feigl told The Clarion Ledger at the time.
Brady Feigl looks so similar to his fellow minor league player, also named Brady Feigl, that the pair took a DNA test to find out if there’s any relation. MLB Photos via Getty Images
Brady Feigl of the Las Vegas Aviators has already been mistaken for his older counterpart. Ole MissFeigl subsequently found out that he had a serious lookalike.
“He was like, “He had it six months ago. What are you talking about?” Feigl explained. “That’s how I found out there was two of us.”
A few years later, in 2017, the duo fell into another identity crisis, after the University of Missouri’s baseball team tagged the wrong Feigl on Twitter in a birthday tribute, where the Las Vegas player was signed at the time.
“Wrong Brady Feigl,” the former San Diego Padres player responded. “Might be looking for @bfeigl39…”
The pair look so similar that they underwent DNA testing to see if they were separated at birth. MLB Photos via Getty Images Strangely enough, these two were not separated at birth–the DNA test showed no biological connection. However, despite their age gap, the Feigl’s still feel bonded to each other.
“We’re still brothers in a way,” the older Feigl said, according to The Sun.
The Feigl’s may not be the only two out there who are two identical strangers — an August 2022 study of 32 pairs by Cell Reports found that people who look alike yet are not related share genetic similarities.
In the study, researchers asked the doubles to do a DNA test and fill out a questionnaire about their lives, according to CNN. The scientists performing the work also put the doppelgänger’s images through three different facial recognition programs.
The duo even had the same shoulder surgery in 2015. MLB Photos via Getty Images “Genomics clusters them together, and the rest sets them apart,” said senior author Manel Esteller of the Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain, in a statement.
