Nice cars, tennis shoes and The Rock: Vlad Guerrero Jr. leaks a few details of his personal movie script

DUNEDIN, Fla.—When Vladimir Guerrero Jr. made a funny the other day, he cracked up his audience of media mooks.

“What we did last year was a trailer. Now you guys are going to see the movie.”

But what if there actually was a movie about the superstar Blue Jay? Not that Hollywood has a great history of baseball on celluloid. On this lazy spring morning we asked: Who would Vladdy like to see play Vladdy?

The answer came without hesitation.

“La Rock.”

Which didn’t need any translation by always-at-his-elbow interpreter Tito Lebron.

Dwayne Johnson, the professional wrestler turned mega-successful action hero on screen.

At some point, this ultra-magnetic baller will no longer need to express himself through a Spanish-to-English proxy and maybe then we’ll gain a better understanding — the nuances — of Guerrero’s character. Although it has been writ fairly large in both the intensity he brings to the plate and the endlessly buoyant personality often witnessed in the dugout.

He’s a jester and a prankster.

In fact, the just-turned-23-year-old understands the Queen’s English just fine. In the clubhouse he’ll chatter away with unilingual teammates. But he’s still shy about doing interviews in a language other than his native tongue.

Shall we give it a go today, Vladdy?

“Nah.”

Some easy questions, maybe? Like, what was the flashy sports car you drove up in?

“Corvette.”

How many cars do you own?

“Two.”

What’s the other one?

“Mercedes-Benz.”