By Matt Rappa, Sports Talk Philly editor 
Six-time All-Star and three-time Silver Slugger Award winner — former Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Jose Bautista — can add another lifetime achievement to his list of accomplishments.
Inspired by Bautista's famous bat flip in Game 5 of the 2015 American League Division Series, Ottawa entomologist Dr. Bob Anderson named his recently discovered weevil species, a type of beetle, the Sicoderus bautistai.
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The Ottawa Citizen's Megan Gillis writes that Anderson discovered the weevil while perusing through museum collections in the Dominican Republic — Bautista's native country:
In another memorable moment, he and his daughter took in the 2015 playoff game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Texas Rangers that put the team in the American League final for the first time in two decades.
“It was a statement home run and he punctuated it with an ‘in your face’ bat flip, which has now been immortalized in baseball lore,” Anderson said. “I had been working on describing some new weevils from the West Indies, including some from the Dominican Republic, so I began to think about naming a species after him. It was just one of those spur-of-the-moment decisions.”
Anderson, the director of the museum’s Beaty Centre for Species Discovery, thinks its the first insect named after a Major League Baseball player.
Anderson has named over 120 weevils over his career, per The Associated Press. The Sicoderus bautistai is described as a "tiny, shiny” black insect.
Bautista, 38, elected free agency on Oct. 29, after a 27-game stint in red pinstripes in which he slashed .244/.404/.467 with five singles, four doubles, two home runs, six RBI, 11 walks and 15 strikeouts spanning 57 plate appearances.
The Phillies acquired the 15-year veteran on August 28 in exchange for a player to be named later or cash. Through 1,798 career games, Bautista has slugged 344 home runs and 975 RBI, along with finishing in the top-eight for Most Valuable Player in four separate seasons.
