UPDATE: 3/9/08: Peter Abraham just reported that Cervelli will miss 8-10 weeks. A pretty tough blow for a kid who is seen as the heir apparent (defensively at least) for Jorge.
In case you haven't seen one of the most hardcore home plate collisions in a long time, check out the video below.
Sorry about the poor quality, I screen captured it.
click below for the permalink version when Youtube inevitably takes down the video:
Someone needs to remind Elliot Johnson that this is Spring Training and that he is a nobody. Yankees play the Rays again on Wednesday. Could be some interesting payback.
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7 comments:
Thanks for the video.
Good hard baseball. Johnson is trying to make the team and showing his coaches what he has. That is a part of baseball, if you block the plate you know you can get nailed.
Joe Maddon... Is that you?
I thought there was no crying in baseball.. Elliot Johnson made a clean play!!!!
Had he not driven his helmet full-force into Cervelli's wrist, I would agree with you.
Rumor has it that Spring Training games vs. The Yankees are equal to the [don't call me Devil] Rays postseason.
I find it ironic that Yankee fans are whining about this. It's hard to believe that if the situations were reversed, the Yankee player wouldn't deliver the same hit. This was a clean play.
In a game today, Jose Molina was out on a play at the plate where the ball clearly beat him to the plate. Guess what? He didn't railroad the catcher. Molina is a pretty hefty dude, I'm sure he wasn't scared of contact - he just knew that it was Spring Training and you don't run someone over in a violent collision in a non-contact sport in an exhibition game.
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