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A 'wild boar' was reportedly responsible for the injury that ruled Yoenis Cespedes out of the 2019 MLB season, and it could cost him $38 million

Barnaby Lane   

A 'wild boar' was reportedly responsible for the injury that ruled Yoenis Cespedes out of the 2019 MLB season, and it could cost him $38 million
Yoenis Cespedes

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This German boar isn't the one that injured Cespedes.

Of all the reasons people call in sick at work, having a "wild boar" run at you, causing you to fall and fracture your ankle, is probably low down the list.

But that's what happened to Major League Baseball star Yoenis Cespedes, according to the New York Post.

The Post reports the New York Mets outfielder was on his Port St. Lucie ranch in May, when a boar, which had escaped from one of his traps, charged at him, causing him to step back into a hole and suffer multiple fractures in his right ankle.

He immediately reported the injury, and how it happened, to the Mets, says The Post, however it was reported in the media at the time as simply a "violent" fall.

Cespedes, a two-time MLB All Star, signed a four-year, $110 million contract with the Mets in 2016, however has since played just 119 games, and none in 2019, because of multiple injuries.

He missed nearly seven months of the 2017 season with hamstring problems, and in October 2018, the Cuban had surgery to remove calcification from both of his heels - operations from which he was still recovering at the time of his swine-induced stumble.

According to ESPN, the incident in May led to the Mets withholding part of Cespedes' wages, alleging him to have breached his contract by participating in an activity prohibited by his contract's guarantee language.

The players' association filed a grievance however, and last month, both sides settled on an amended contract which saw Cespedes' pay packet for 2019 cut from $29 million to $14,811,828, as per The Associated Press.

For 2020, his base salary was cut even further to $6 million, says AP, however that will increase to $11 million if he recovers from injury and is named on the active roster.

That is one pricey piggy.

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