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First prize — We tip our “cap” to Rays reliever Pete Fairbanks, a true master of the all-important Strange But True Injury of the Year niche. He was the 2023 Injury of the Year grand prize winner — for suffering a black eye while trying to dunk on his 3-year-old son on a swimming pool basketball hoop. This year, he missed a game with a cut finger — which he slashed trying to take the cap off a bottle of spring water.
Second prize — Dead heat
Remember that episode of “Seinfeld” where Kramer fell asleep in a tanning salon and that didn’t go real well? Now meet Miguel Sanó, the Cosmo Kramer of Orange County. Did I mention that I like to award bonus points to guys who get hurt while they’re already hurt? Well, a funny thing happened to Sanó in May after he’d already spent a month on the Angels’ IL with knee inflammation. He slapped a heating pad on that knee, lost track of the time and… Ouch!
Third prize — the White Sox (special team citation)
It isn’t often we award one of these prestigious Injury of the Year medals to an entire team. But if ever there was a team that could pull that off, the 2024 White Sox proved once again, in this Injury of the Year derby, that the one thing they were great at was cornering the market on every form of Strange But Trueness.
Fourth prize — the Mets (yep, another team citation)
The Mets didn’t have any cleanup hitters lose a tussle with a wild boar this season. That’… Brandon Nimmo woke up to head for the hotel bathroom in the middle of the night, somehow fainted, gashed his forehead and wound up arriving at the park later with a bandage on his head and a hospital bracelet around his hand.
Fifth prize — Victim of glove
It was a bizarre year in the life of Yankees outfielder Alex Verdugo in many ways. But it’s safe to say that one of those ways was this: He revealed in August that he was allergic to his own batting gloves.
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