Kansas City Royals Manager Ned Yost broke his pelvis after falling from a tree in Georgia last week. On Monday, he spoke about the severity of the life-threatening injury.
"There's no doubt I would have bled out if I didn't have my cellphone with me," he told Jeffrey Flanagan of MLB.com. "There was nobody that was coming. Nobody would have found me. I would have been dead by nightfall.
"The trauma surgeon said, 'Man, Ned, I was really scared about you. We've seen these things before. This is a 25-30 percent mortality rate. You were crashing on the table. We couldn't get the bleeding stopped. I thought we were going to lose you.' "
Yost also confirmed Monday that he would need a wheelchair for two months.
He regularly spends much of his offseason hunting on his Georgia property, so the fact that he was up in a deer stand and isolated in the wilderness wasn't surprising.
"You've got people pulling on you," Yost told Kent Babb of the Kansas City Star in 2012, contrasting his duties as a manager with the opportunity to spend time on his farm. "You've got your coaches, you've got your players; you're worried about this, you're worried about that. But out here, you don't. You're just in the tractor. With the air conditioning going on, it don't matter."
Yost, 63, has spent eight seasons as the Royals' manager, going 629-632 in that time. He led the team to back-to-back World Series trips in 2014-2015, winning the championship in 2015.
Back for another run
While his first run in the BIG3 did not go as smoothly as anticipated, Allen Iverson will return to the three-on-three basketball league for its second season.
The BIG3 announced Iverson will return for his second season as the 3's Company coach after serving in the role during the league's inaugural campaign. Metta World Peace was also announced as a new player, joining Stephen Jackson as a co-captain of Killer 3's.
Twenty-five players from the first season have also signed up to be part of the next draft pool.
World Peace will be playing under his given name of Ron Artest. The former NBA Defensive Player of the Year changed his name in 2011 as part of an effort to inspire young children and adults to come together. He last played for the Los Angeles Lakers during the 2016-2017 season and now serves as a player development coach for the South Bay Lakers of the NBA's G League.
Iverson's return to the league is a bit of a surprise, especially given his mostly disappointing first season with 3's Company. By far the biggest name associated with the BIG3 from its outset, Iverson's playing time and output was minimal. He also was suspended for one game for no-showing at a BIG3 game in Dallas.
Those issues, along with the fact Iverson was not named among the initial returning coaches and captains, led to a natural assumption he would not return next summer.
However, it appears whatever hurt feelings there were have been mended, and Iverson will lend his presence once again to the fledgling league.
QUIZ
What was Ned Yost's career batting average in six seasons in the majors?
ANSWER
Yost hit .212 playing for the Milwaukee Brewers, Texas Rangers and Montreal Expos.
Sports on 11/14/2017