Loading ...Bad break for a former Red:
Baltimore Orioles pitcher Jose Acevedo broke four ribs and his collarbone Friday in a motorcycle accident and is expected to miss the entire season, his Dominican winter league team said.
Acevedo was conscious and in intensive care Friday, Aguilas Cibaenas executive Luichy Sanchez told The Associated Press.
“Is this a surprise? Absolutely,” Orioles executive vice president Mike Flanagan said in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “We’re obviously saddened to hear the news. This sounds like a serious accident.”
A non-roster invite to Orioles spring training, Acevedo crashed his motorcycle into a car early Friday in Santiago. Aguilas Cibaenas officials did not know if the car was moving at the time of the accident.
Acevedo, who did not pitch for a major league team in 2006, is 18-25 with a 5.74 ERA in five seasons with Cincinnati and Colorado. He threw eight innings and was named an All-Star in the recent Caribbean Series in Puerto Rico, which the Aguilas won for the Dominican Republic.
Acevedo was supposed to report to Orioles camp Wednesday, but he never arrived.
I hate to hear that. I always thought Acevedo could have been a good major league pitcher, but I’m not sure Acevedo ever really cared about it.
He had the misfortune of coming up during the “Let’s Ruin Our Young Pitchers” era of Reds baseball.
On the money Chris. They ruined quite a few promising young pitchers during that time frame. I remember everyone repeating as if it were gospel, how great a pitching coach Don Gullett was. If we didn’t resign him every year some other rich club would hire him away and the Reds would be up a creek. Where’s is Gullett now? He’s available. Did anyone run after him with a boatload of money?
Now Gullett is not soley responsible for the sorry state the Reds pitching was in but, in my mind, he was emblematic of the Reds’ unwillingness to change and try something different.