Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost shattered his pelvis after falling from a tree last week, but that doesn’t quite cover the trauma he experienced.
Yost spoke to the media for the first time Monday since his accident and revealed that the severity of the injury is such that he’s lucky to be alive — he could’ve bled out after falling, and even after he was taken to the hospital, doctors had a hard time stopping the bleeding.
Ned Yost is back at home after his horrific fall that shattered his pelvis. He told me, “There’s no doubt I would have bled out if I didn’t have my cellphone with me. There was nobody that was coming. Nobody would have found me. I would have been dead by nightfall.”
— Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) November 13, 2017
Ned Yost also told me, "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.'"
— Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) November 13, 2017
Ned Yost also said he will be in a wheelchair for at least two months but hopes to be able to move around normally by Spring Training. He tells me he feels "like a lucky man" right now.
— Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) November 13, 2017
We knew from initial reports that Yost’s injury was serious, but not quite this serious. He is indeed lucky, and it’s good to know that he’s doing better and plans to manage as normal in 2018.
