Former Brewers manager Ned Yost comes close to bleeding to death in fall from hunting stand

Anyone who knows Ned Yost knows how much he loves hunting. When it comes to his top passions, baseball is No. 1 and hunting is 1A.

Well, that passion for hunting almost cost the former Milwaukee Brewers player and manager and current Kansas City Royals manager his life. But not in the way it often does – with some kind of shooting accident. Instead, Yost was injured badly in a fall from a tree, where he was setting up a deer stand on his massive property in Georgia. 

Yost suffered a badly crushed pelvis in the fall, which caused massive internal bleeding. Yost told his story to Jeff Flanagan of mlb.com and to the Kansas City Star, and how he found out after his surgery how close he came to dying.

Luckily, despite the rural setting, Yost had cellphone service and got through to his wife, Debbie, who made the 911 call that ended up saving his life.

"There's no doubt I would have bled out if I didn't have my cellphone with me," Yost said. "There was nobody that was coming. Nobody would have found me. I would have been dead by nightfall."

Looks like Yost had a lengthy recovery ahead of him, including perhaps a couple of months in a wheelchair. Not sure if we'll see him at baseball's winter meetings in December in Orlando but very little keeps Yost down.

Here's wishing him a speedy recovery. As he admitted in the story, he's a lucky man.