Daniel Webb hasn’t been forgotten by his old friends in the White Sox system. The relief pitcher who died in an ATV accident in October in Tennessee provided catcher Kevan Smith and his wife, Jessica, with a name for their son, who was born Friday.
They named their child Wyatt Daniel Smith, switching around Webb’s given name: Robert Wyatt McDaniel. The Smiths’ son was born with two webbed toes, which Smith feels is more than a coincidence.
“I kind of laughed when we saw those because that was Webby kind of putting his stamp on him a little bit,” said Smith, who first played with Webb at Class A Kannapolis in 2012.