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Atlanta Braves<\/a> outfielder Jason Heyward<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> is widely considered the best hitting prospect in baseball. Last year, at 19, he delivered 17 homers and a .323 average across three minor league levels. He reportedly added 20 pounds of muscle<\/a> during the offseason, too. <\/p>\n In insurance circles, however, Heyward has become a serious problem. <\/p>\n When he takes batting practice at the Braves’ spring training facility in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., any vehicle within 500 feet is apparently at risk. On Tuesday he destroyed a sunroof and dented a truck<\/a>. By the end of March, the right-field parking lot could very well be an apocalyptic scene: smoldering cars, cratered asphalt, stranded motorists. <\/p>\n But fear not, Florida citizens. The Braves are among baseball’s most forward-thinking organizations, and they’re taking steps to keep you safe. <\/a>This from David O’Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>:<\/p>\n When manager Bobby Cox said that the Braves will probably install nets to protect cars from Jason Heyward’s prodigious batting-practice He was not kidding.<\/p>\n "I’m serious," Cox said Thursday at Champion Stadium. "Smashing too many cars."<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n As Braves assistant general manager Bruce Manno could attest, this is not myth. This stuff is happening – Manno has an $3,400 estimate for repairs as proof. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n And if the nets don’t hold Heyward, team engineers have designed a surface-to-air defense system, already at the advanced prototype stage. The Braves are committed to containing this threat. <\/p>\n Let’s just hope they don’t contain Heyward by keeping him in the minors to begin the season. He clearly belongs in a stadium that has a second deck.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Photo via AP Images <\/em><\/p>\n \nOther popular stories on Yahoo! Sports:<\/strong> Atlanta Braves outfielder Jason Heyward(notes) is widely considered the best hitting prospect in baseball. Last year, at 19, he delivered 17 homers and a .323 average across three minor league levels. He reportedly added 20 pounds of muscle during the offseason, too. In insurance circles, however, Heyward has become a serious problem. When he takes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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