JACE LAVIOLETE ASTAMENT UPDATE: TEXAS A&M Star explains the decision to play after the operation

Jace laviolet left everything in the field. After suffering a broken left hand on Thursday and being excluded for the rest of the SEC tournament Texas A & M. Star refused to miss the Aggies' showdown against LSU in the quarter -finals and meet the first recommendations of the doctors.

Laviolets recorded a hit and two RBIs in three bats. Despite laviolet heroic performance, Texas A&M ultimately fell 4: 3 in the season finale of the Aggies. After the game, laviolette opened his decision to play the injury.

“I was hit in my hand yesterday, broke the bone there, was operated on and played today”, Laviolette ” said In a blunt summary of his last 36 hours. “… I recently said in an interview: 'I would run through a wall [Texas A&M head coach Michael Earley] And I want to win. That's it. I just wanted to win. “

Laviolette joined the pre-season as a second player this season and was one of the best rated MLB View. While laviolets, like the Aggies in general, do not necessarily meet expectations this season, he will still be a top 10 election in the upcoming draft.

Many players had decided not to risk any further injury, but Laviolet played the pain for his team. Although laviolet was unable to write the storybook that ended with the Aggies he had hoped for, he will always be happy to look back at his time in the college station.

“The last three years have undoubtedly been the best three years of my life,” said Laviolette. “I can't talk enough about this university what she did for me, not only as a baseball player, but as a person.

“It is difficult to fathom that I came to college three years ago and now leave a completely different person. I can't express enough of what this university can do for you and what these trainers can do for you, and only the 12th man – I just want to thank. I can't imagine. I can imagine baseball without him.”

College Baseball fans were undoubtedly not the only ones who were impressed by Laviolet's coarse -grained display on Friday evening. Perhaps with a little luck and a complete recovery, Jace Laviolette will increase in the coming weeks.

“Laviolette has as much raw power as everyone else is built and is built to be balls with a fast left-hander, the strength and leverage in its impressive 6-foot 6 frame and a focus on starting parking spaces on his pull side. Laviolet's design profile reads on mlb.com.