Yankees coach not pleased with accident to Cervelli
March 12th, 2008
Joe Girardi of the New York Yankees seemed to be pretty much upset with the crash of a Tampa Bay Rays minor league player Elliot Johnson on his prospective season catcher Francisco Cervelli that led to the fracture of the right wrist of the young player. The exhibition game at Legends Field was won by the Rays 4-1, but the coach said that this crash was unwarranted for in an exhibition game. Girardi said that he was 100% endorsing the view that each player must work hard, but it does not mean that a runner has to go overboard and run over a catcher and that too in a spring training game.
The Yankees player Francisco Cervelli said that he did not think that it was that hard a tackle and said that all these are part of the game. The manager of the Rays team, Joe Maddon, said that he was game for the hard play and wished his team plays like this throughout the forthcoming season. Cervelli is one of the top most defensive catching prospects that are available for Girardi for the season, and the Yankees still are not aware of the time Francisco’s right wrist would take to heal or whether it will need any medical procedure to set it right.
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