Miquel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers took a one hop rocket off the face this week. 8 stitches and a minor fracture of his orbital bone. They say if he wasn't wearing sunglasses it would have been much worse.
I almost posted the link to the video when it happened. Wasn't even really a wicked smash. Looks like he just kind of lost track of it as his glove stays down and then it took a bad hop. I don't expect MLBers to start wearing masks but if a guy like Miggy should choose to wear a mask after that incident, it sure would go a long way towards making them more palatable to the younger kids.