According to MLB.com, Devil Rays top prospect Delmon Young is facing a potentially lengthy suspension after throwing his bat at an umpire’s chest during Wednesday night’s game at Pawtucket.
Young is the consensus No.1 prospect in all of baseball. Apparently, he didn’t agree with a third strike call, stayed in the batter’s box and glared at the umpire for about 30 seconds. After moving toward the dugout he was ejected, which prompted the soon to be infamous bat toss. First Josh Hamilton and now this, pretty crazy.
I guess it wasn’t too forceful but this could easily be a year long suspension.
This is up there with one of the worst acts that I have ever seen happen on the baseball field. That bat could have easily hit the umpires face injuring him badly. NEVER hit an official. I would have no problem with him getting a year long suspension.
After seeing the tape, it was actually a harder throw than I thought it was going to be after reading about it. He’s getting at least a year off.