Well, we won’t have to worry about hearing about Chris Young in 2006, it seems. At least not until September.
First, the D-Backs
signed Jeff DaVanon, and now
Young has broken his hand doing agility drills. He’ll miss most of Spring Training, if not all of it, and the one-year contracts given to DaVanon and Eric Byrnes will most likely keep him from occupying center field in whatever Bank One Ballpark is called now until 2007.
It seems as though Young actually broke his hand doing agility drills, and not washing his truck/playing basketball/punching a vice cop, so it's a meaningless fluke accident instead of some sort of significant character flaw. Nevertheless, much like Jeremy Reed’s wrist injury last year, it buys the Sox some time until the majority of their fans forget who the Sox traded for Javy Vazquez.
Ultimately, I hope Vazquez pitches so well that nobody cares either way.