There are two Brady Feigls. Both are Minor League Baseball pitchers. They each had the same surgery and even used the same surgeon. If they were to put on identical eyeglasses, they might easily be mistaken for the same person. As it is, their looks are so startlingly similar, one is often confused with the other.
Moreover, they each stand 6’4″ tall and both have red hair, according to The New York Post. Their commonalities are so striking that the young men decided to take a DNA test.
To their surprise, the results showed there was no relation!
Brady Feigl and Brady Feigl each recently took a DNA test.
The results confirmed they are not related and there is, in fact, a glitch in the Matrix. pic.twitter.com/CWHEY1Bbhd
— Dan Clark (@DanClarkSports) January 12, 2023
The Post reported that one of the men is 27 and pitches for the Las Vegas Aviators, and the other, is 32 and plays for the Long Island Ducks. (The various reports about the Feigls were published in different years and both players have changed teams at least once.)
The doppelgängers learned of one another in 2015 when they’d each had elbow surgery with orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews. The younger Feigl told The Clarion Ledger, a Mississippi media outlet, in 2018: “I was probably six or seven months out of surgery and their [Dr. Andrews] office called our trainer and said, ‘Hey, when’s Brady reporting for surgery? Is he getting down here tomorrow?’”
“He was like, ‘He had it six months ago. What are you talking about?’ That’s how I found out there was two of us.” Feigl said.
The Ledger reported the two were confused again in 2017 when University of Mississippi marketing graduate assistant Mary Claire Hamner tagged Feigl, who was pitching for the Ole Miss Rebels at the time, in a birthday greeting from Ole Miss baseball’s Twitter account.
“Someone responded ‘That’s not the right Brady,'” Hamner told the Ledger. “I was thinking, ‘You’re wrong.'”
As it turned out, she had tagged the other Feigl, who was then playing for the Frisco Rough Riders.
Realizing her error, she said, “I’m just astounded. Like there’s no way I made this mistake. But they (her bosses) also can’t get mad at me for making the mistake.”
Big birthday shoutout to JR Pitcher @bmfeigl! Have an awesome day! 🎉 #BirthdayReb pic.twitter.com/KlPjPBqKLL
— Ole Miss Baseball (@OleMissBSB) November 27, 2017
UK media outlet The Sun reported that Brady Matthew Feigl, the younger man, is from Maryland and Brady Gregory Feigl, from Missouri.
Despite test results confirming they are unrelated, the pair “still feel bonded to each other,” according to the Sun.
The older Feigl told the outlet, “We’re still brothers in a way.” He added, “And we’ll always be Brady Feigl.”
A previous version of this article appeared in The Western Journal.
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I completely understand how they can be mis-identified. Everywhere I go I am constantly stopped by people and asked to sign an autograph: they all squeal, “oh look, I got an autograph from Brad Pitt!”.
Then sadly, shortly thereafter, I awaken to the smell of coffee and stale cat litter. Unfortunately, the dream isn’t enough to make me identify as the real thing, nor force me to change my personal pronouns to ‘tall’, ‘handsome’ or ‘cool dude’.
“…Everywhere I go I am constantly stopped by people and asked to sign an autograph:..”
That happens to you too? Maybe we should have our DNA tested.
Hilarious… Love the post. And hey why not change them.. the pronouns of course! Good Luck Brad… I mean Rich