The Arizona baseball team will be without its best offensive player for about a month to start the 2011 season.
Junior right fielder Steve Selsky — who hit .370 with 9 home runs and 51 RBI, all team highs, in 2011 — suffered a boxer’s fracture in his right hand after being hit by a pitch during a scrimmage last Tuesday.
A boxer’s fracture is a “”break in the bones of the hand that form the knuckles”” according to EMedicineHealth.
Selsky underwent an hour-long procedure on Friday to hold the bone in place, and will be in a cast for about a week before switching to a brace.
Sophomore Robert Refsnyder will likely be Selsky’s replacement, prior to Pacific 10 Conference play, until Selsky is fully recovered. Refsnyder hit .344 with 2 home runs and 40 RBI in 55 starts in 2010.
— Alex Williams
