Yoenis Cespedes‘s contract was restructured last month, which is how we knew there was some sort of contract infraction when it came to the injury. But, we didn’t know exactly what it was.
Now we do. And it involved a wild boar.
Mike Puma, Joel Sherman, and Ken Davidoff of the New York Post set out to give us the answers we were looking for. We knew that the injury was caused by Cespedes falling into a hole. But now it has come out that he fell into this hole after an interaction with a wild boar.
Cespedes nor his agent have commented on the situation. However, multiple people who were informed of the incident stated that this was the case. There are traps all around Cespedes’s ranch, one of the reasons being to keep the boars away. However, when one of the boars was removed from the trap (it is not confirmed as to whether Cespedes was the one removing the boar), the boar either charged at Cespedes or startled him. This initiated the jerk reaction of him stepping into a hole and fracturing his ankle.
Well, that sounds like a breach of contract to me, now doesn’t it?
Cespedes’s contract forbid both the standard participation in athletic activities but also included additional activities in order to further decrease the chance of a re-injury. We do not know the exact language and activities included in this specific contract, but it is safe to say that being in close proximity to wild animals falls under one of the potential risk categories.
We continue to wish Cespedes a speedy recovery and hope to see him back at the plate soon. Just please stay away from wild animals for the foreseeable future, Yo.
