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For baseball players and their barbers, loyalty cuts both ways

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The barber will see you now: Players from across the majors come to Juice when it’s time for a cut. (Scott McIntyre/For The Washington Post)

[Editor’s note: Following this story’s publication Gio Gonzalez was traded by the Washington Nationals to the Milwaukee Brewers.]

MIAMI — Juice thumbed through his iPhone to find a photo Bryce Harper had sent him: a young man in a barber’s chair, showing off a meticulously detailed haircut from a side angle. The Washington Nationals superstar asked the bearded and heavily tattooed man whether he could replicate the look — an undercut-style cut with a spin on the traditional fade.