Ned Yost picked up the phone, heard his franchise catcher was injured after being run into by his backup catcher in what amounts to a marketing campaign disguised as competitive baseball, and, well, yeah.
The Royals manager’s reaction was the same as yours, probably.
“I’m kicking Drew’s ass when I see him,” Yost said.
That would be Drew Butera, the backup, who … how do we describe what he did to starter Salvador Perez in a World Baseball Classic game the other day?
Initially, everybody called it a collision, and that’s true, in the technical sense: Butera did collide with Perez.