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One day after Ryan Franklin ranted about Major League Baseball's new "no guns in the clubhouse" policy, two spring training stories illustrated why the new policy might not be such a bad idea after all. Two players, the Dodgers' Vicente Padilla and the Marlins' Jose Ceda, were involved in accidental shootings within the last year and a half.The public already knew about the incident in which Vicente Padilla was shot in the leg by a friend during the offseason, but he went into more detail with the Los Angeles Times on Monday. He wasn't grazed by a bullet from a hand gun, as he previously claimed, but rather the bullet passed through his leg and he lost significant blood. He's fine now, though, and recovered sufficiently for the Dodgers to give him a one-year deal well after the shooting.
The Ceda incident is much more jarring; he revealed to the Miami Herald on Saturday that the reason he gained weight between the 2008 and 2009 seasons is that he was under house arrest after accidentally shooting a friend in the Dominican Republic.
He was cleared of wrongdoing and his friend has recovered, but the incident clearly shook him up if he felt that he couldn't even talk about it to the Marlins for a year. Things didn't get better for Ceda after the incident, either. Once he got to Marlins camp in February, doctors found that he had a torn laburm that required surgery and he missed all of the 2009 season. This year, he's slimmed down and is trying to bounce back from both the shooting and the shoulder injury.
Do these two incidents prove Franklin, who said that there was no problem with guns in the locker room if people didn't "get stupid with [them,]" wrong and Bud Selig's new policy right? Of course not, but two separate accidental shootings involving major league players probably makes the decision-makers at MLB headquarters feel a little better about their new mandate.
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