Marlin's outfielder Giancarlo Stanton took a fastball to the face this summer. In all honesty, I was surprised to see that he lived, much less that he remained conscious; I didn't think it was possible to take a shot like that without having your skull crushed (it was not a glancing blow, the ball hit him directly on the left cheekbone and just dropped to the ground, meaning that he absorbed almost all of its energy). Some players who have been hit in the head or face will later use a batting helmet with a partial facemask bolted to it, which causes the helmet itself to take most of the impact of a pitch.
Stanton just signed a massive contract (13 years, $325 million) and I wonder how the injury will affect him. The Mets' David Wright was hit in the head and his performance changed noticeably for a few years afterwards.
This is the Stanton video. Not gruesome (no blood or disfiguring) but might be a bit disturbing:
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Stanton just signed a massive contract (13 years, $325 million) and I wonder how the injury will affect him. The Mets' David Wright was hit in the head and his performance changed noticeably for a few years afterwards.
This is the Stanton video. Not gruesome (no blood or disfiguring) but might be a bit disturbing:
[youtube]W5Bg3oaHI8I[/youtube]
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
