ESPN: Cardinals minor leaguer Daniel Poncedeleon will go to spring workouts after scary hit to head
One change since his last, fateful game, Poncedeleon said, is that he’ll be wearing a hard carbon fiber cap insert to provide some head protection. He said that he and his father researched safety devices and focused on the contoured 1.7-ounce SST Pro Performance head guard that the Angels‘ Matt Shoemaker told OTL he started wearing after a Sept. 2016 line drive to the head had life-threatening consequences.
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